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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...economic, social and environmental impact...First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship: 3.1 Different types of entrepreneurship - In the following activity, you will listen to some real-life entrepreneurs and consider the types of entrepreneurship they represent. Activity 7 Timing: Allow about 1 hour 30 minutes for this activity To begin this activity, try to list as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?
Nature & Environment

Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?

...economic activity, large-scale changes are expected. However, the authors say this is the first study to quantify the effect of urbanisation on crop lands at global, continental, and country levels. The study was carried out by researchers from Austria, Germany, Sweden, New Zealand, and United States. The croplands that are going to disappear by 2030 have productivity...
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Article 5 mins
Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...Economic Cooperation and Development, according to a statement from DIE last month (16 January). Visit the Nationally Determined Contributions Explorer The experts created a database from the (I)NDCs or intended nationally determined contributions and opened it with an interactive online tool. Pieter Pauw, an environmental scientist at the DIE who led the research team to...
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Video 5 mins
Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...Economic Affairs estimates that school closures have kept 90% of all students out of school globally, reversing years of progress in education. Governments around the world have had to ensure continuity of learning through alternative means. This has mostly been technology-based remote learning approaches, even though that risks exacerbating the challenges associated with...
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Article 10 mins
Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...concerned with many other areas besides opinion polls. Statistics is used wherever there is quantitative information to be dealt with. Medicine and biomedical science, economics, government, education, psychology, finance, environment, and forensic science are just some of the many areas of twenty-first century life in which statistics and statisticians play a key role....
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Article 5 mins
The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...economic contribution. Retirement can bring with it a sense of personal loss of the reputation, status and income associated with employment. It may also be accompanied by society’s loss of interest in the opinions of its oldest citizens. A key milestone of passing 65 is that most opinion polls that pop into the email inbox offer a single demographic age category of...
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Article 5 mins
Not intervening as a form of care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Not intervening as a form of care

...care - not only for people who are very sick and dying – but in all instances when the assumption to continually treat and intervene might not actually be the most caring thing to do. The Forms of Care Project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/P002781/1). To find out more about the project, visit the project website or follow us on Twitter....
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Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach
History & The Arts

Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach

...economic and political inequalities. Religious literacy animation Transcript Religious literacy refers to the interventions we make through which mutual understanding and mutual flourishing can be furthered. Everyone has religious literacy. However, not everyone has had the opportunity to explore differences – religious and/or cultural – in a safe space. Religious...
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Video 10 mins