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Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...world. Monisha discovered at the end of her journey that, ‘Trains would always be an open window into the soul of a country and its people’. It wasn’t always easy, the trains were variable in terms of comfort, safety and reliability but it was always surprising. In her best-selling account of the journey, ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’ (2019) Rajesh describes a...
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Left behind?
Society, Politics & Law

Left behind?

...world...[A cartoon of famous left-handed characters and figures including Napoleon, Bart Simpson and Garfield.] What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Toulouse Lautrec, Robert De Niro, Marilyn Monroe, Nicole Kidman, Lewis Carroll, Bart Simpson, Harpo Marx, Spike Lee, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Uri Geller, Albert Einstein, Napoleon Bonaparte, Aristotle, Marie Curie,...
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Indigenous ceremonies and climate change
Nature & Environment

Indigenous ceremonies and climate change

...world. Many people are overwhelmed by despair when faced with the enormity of Climate Change and other global challenges. This can even be exacerbated by the magnitude of some of the proposed solutions, especially the most ambitious technical ones. Something needs to intervene between the disasters presented by global and social media and the debilitating mood that...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...world around them...[Young child on a woodland path] If you work in childcare or education, it’s likely that at some point in your career you’ve grappled with recycling systems and had conversations about ‘saving the environment’. You may be making connections with nature by cultivating responsibility for a patch of woodland to ensure the next generation will care...
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Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blood, bruises and belief: how England’s women’s rugby team embody physical and mental endurance

...World Cup. But the tackles, speed and power fans see on the field are only part of the story. What we don’t see is what it takes – both physically and psychologically – to wear England’s emblem, the Red Rose...The psychology of rugby shapes every performance. Behind the scenes lie early mornings, lonely and punishing rehab sessions, playing through pain, brutal...
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Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events
Society, Politics & Law

Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events

...World War, it is already apparent that its antecedents were laid down during the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century. To identify a year when ‘it’ came to 'an end' is also problematic, 1919, 1922, 1926 or the early 1930s? It is clear that its legacies were continuing until well after World War Two. Importantly, Red Clydeside is not a...
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Article 15 mins
Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...world...Traditional media - like TV and film - often profits from young people: adults write stories about them, often without their involvement. These are, quite often, sensationalised portraits of youth, which may focus on the risky or exciting. Young people may or may not find these good reflections of their own lives, or the lives they would like to have. The internet...
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Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...world’s biggest questions...In an age where machines seem to be doing more and more ‘human’ tasks, we are all constantly grappling with the question: ‘what makes a human, human’? The Roman poet Ovid also asked this question – it was one of many big questions about the world that he asked which we are still struggling with today. Others, like ‘how did the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs