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The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after
Languages

The Great Fall: A personal perspective, before and after

...children. We arrived at a campsite in Werder, near Potsdam at 3am and blundered about noisily setting up our tents on the playground, but no-one seemed too bothered. This was the first of a comedy of errors throughout the trip (we got as far as the Hartz mountains) and we have to say that to us East German officialdom was relaxed and friendly. As tourists, we found the...
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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...Children’s Hospital, which has the largest paediatric brain tumour centre in the Northwest of America. The trial is run by Blaze Bioscience Inc., and in phase I up to 27 people who have been diagnosed with a brain tumour (from infants to young adults under the age of 30) will have their operations performed using the drug. “I think lots of other people are trying to...
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Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...research today compares information such as the number of children enrolled or completing their education. This reflects the modern aim of achieving free, universal and compulsory primary education, which was established in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The ambition to achieve free and compulsory primary education for all children has been defined and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...research with young children in this area: Little et al. (2011, p. 115) describe it as ‘play that provides opportunities for challenge, testing limits, exploring boundaries and learning about injury-risk’. Stephenson (2003) described 4 year olds’ risky play as ‘attempting something never done before, feeling on the borderline of “out of control” often because...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Do Something Great
Nature & Environment

Do Something Great

...Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership. Live near the coast? Get involved with cleaning up coastal environments - discover more with our free content. Use your digital knowledge to help someone less web-savvy get online with our learning resources. Take small steps to do your bit for the environment and find out more about environmental issues. Find out more about a...
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Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...research...[Donald Rumsfeld] Donald Rumsfeld, widely known for his 'known unknowns' What counts as ‘truth’ is a political hot topic. Yet a previous post has argued that knowledge is relative, a matter of social production, shaped by power dynamics. So how do we reconcile such perspectivism with a continuing search for robust knowledge, whether ‘at home’ or...
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Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...research evidence that they can make a difference to children’s learning, but then life often moves faster than the supply of research evidence. As we have indicated, volunteers are often invited into schools to assist teachers, and teaching assistants are employed without necessarily having any specific training (although, increasingly, in-service training is being...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...children within accommodation centres has particular consequences for women and children, since involvement with schools is a good way of making friends and feeling part of a community. Engagement in paid employment has long been seen as a key aspect of citizenship, both as a responsibility and as a right guaranteed by the state (Mooney, 2004). However, this opportunity...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs