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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...podcasts, etc.) the notes you made on your reading, listening and watching the data you have gathered. All these sources contribute to the content of your written dissertation. Hopefully you have good records, but if you got a bit behind, now is the time to sort them out and remind yourself what you did and what you found out. If you need a reminder of what information...
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...mathematics. The budget also confirmed the terms of doctoral loans of up to £25,000 each for doctoral study, and maintenance loans for part-time undergraduates. Welfare Donald Hirsch, Director, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University Cuts in welfare were at the heart of George Osborne’s agenda coming into the present parliament in 2015. Two years...
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...Mathematic and Financial Literacy, PISA, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/978926425542 5-en OECD (2019) PISA 2018 Assessment and Analytical Framework, PISA, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/b25efab8-en Powell, S. (2014) Influencing children’s attitudes, motivation and achievements’ In T. Cremin, M. Mottram, F. Collins, S. Powell & and K....
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...mathematics is not required to succeed as a bookkeeper or an accountant. What is needed, however, is the confidence and ability to be able to add, subtract, multiply, divide as well as use decimals, fractions and percentages. Competent bookkeepers and accountants should be able to use mental calculations as well as a calculator to perform these numerical skills. The...
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...mathematics? Less than 50% More than 50% Nearly 100% a. Less than 50% b. More than 50% c. Nearly 100% The correct answer is a...Global perspectives on primary education: 3.4 Quality and learner-centred education - As you have just learned, international education agendas today call for ‘quality’ education – not just enrolment of children in school or, to put it...
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...mathematics, in its concern with relationships between formal domains, and of natural science, in its concern with descriptions of the properties of non-formal domains. In Turski’s view an effective software development process would have to deal adequately with descriptions across the formal/non-formal divide. Activity 4 Think of various descriptions used in software...
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...mathematics, science and English are still important, and they should be. However, the Industrial Revolution required learners with these skills because the focus of employment during this period was to expand mechanically, technically and scientifically and this required the knowledge and skills required from these subjects. To make learning and assessment easier, where...
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...mathematical ideas that help in offering clear and precise descriptions of software components relating to data and processes. These ideas are set and function. Section 1 gives a brief introduction to how data and processes may arise in an application situation. Section 2 is concerned with fundamental forms of data, and the mathematical idea of a set. Section 3 looks...
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