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Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...determined locally. At the end of senior secondary schooling, pupils who wish to go to university need to sit the national college entrance examination. This usually takes place in June. Over three days, pupils experience an intensely gruelling and stressful experience. Over eight million pupils compete for places at prestigious universities, but only around 40% can be...
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Article 10 mins
Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade
History & The Arts

Riches & misery: the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade

...determination to segregate black and white communities and discourage intermarriage, and by the reluctance to liberate black people from slavery from one generation to the next. This contrasted with the experiences of African slaves who were sent to the Middle East, where both inter-marriage and slave liberation were more common. And yet, in spite of the trauma...
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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...determines what happens next (e.g., improvements for next time or avoid a further error). Sometimes feedback needs to be more ‘tell-do’, such as when the other person or the organisation is at risk, but remember that this can be difficult to hear. Always ask a question to encourage two-way discussion, e.g., ‘what are your thoughts?’. In most cases, feedback will...
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Article 10 mins
After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...determination’. Although Wilson was thinking about Europe, his words went round the world and galvanised anti-colonial movements across Africa and Asia. The British rejected Zaghlul’s demands and questioned how far he represented the Egyptian people. A massive petition showed the level of support he enjoyed. Zaghlul and his fellow politicians became known as the Wafd...
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Article 15 mins
Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...determine priorities in your field of interest. In the video below, Professors Carol Azumah Dennis and Jenny Douglas talk about their own experiences as academics of citational politics. Transcript. Beyond this, citations matter in academic writing as they confer mutual credibility. They demonstrate a degree of respect for the person whose work is being cited while also...
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Article 20 mins
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...determines the animal's ability to build fat reserves, and in some species, including some hamsters and ground squirrels, the presence of large fat reserves may be necessary for the animal's entry into hibernation. However, others may not readily enter torpor in the absence of a store of food. Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) may fail to enter torpor even when...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...determine the number of values belonging to each class or class interval; this is called class frequency. A tabular arrangement of data by class together with the corresponding class frequencies is called a grouped frequency distribution table. This is a more efficient way to find the trends within the data, but there is a possibility that the grouping process may...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...determines and regulates everything, from the way our rubbish is collected to how much things cost at the supermarket to the cost and quality of education and health care. 3. To what extent were most of those interviewed involved in politics? What were the reasons given for those not involved in politics? Discussion Although everyone interviewed thought that politics is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs