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History and hope: Education for girls in South Sudan
Education & Development

History and hope: Education for girls in South Sudan

...motivated Head Girl and Assistant Head Girl at the school. Rita Akello is the Senior Woman, who was recently profiled for World Teachers’ Day. Rita speaks about the importance of women teachers, because they can be role models for girls and encourage them to raise their aspirations as well as complete their school education. She is truly inspirational. [image of Rita...
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The gift of being a foster carer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The gift of being a foster carer

...motivation to make a difference. Don't exclude yourself if you have your own disability or needs, have pets, or for any reason you think might make it difficult for you. You do not have to own your own home, have had children of your own or experience (we all have to start somewhere to gain experience), be in a relationship, be a full-time foster carer. So throw away any...
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Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...motivating learning, instead of the unfruitful and boring teaching-centred experience. In stark contrast are beliefs that fun is not appropriate in the serious business of higher education. These negative beliefs sometimes associate fun with being merely entertainment, or a ‘trivial experience’, and unconnected to the hard and effortful work required for learning. For...
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Volunteering in the community
Education & Development

Volunteering in the community

...motivated to stay involved is the joy she gets from working with all kinds of different people who live and work in the town. “It’s also about giving back”, she’s quick to add. Town councillors don’t always have to undergo an election – if there are more vacancies than there are candidates, as is often the case. It’s a big undertaking; Helen spends at least...
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What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...et al. 2015) raises precisely this question: how are teacher attitudes towards linguistic diversity related to the expectations they hold of their students? While the study does not actually go on to examine a link between teacher expectations and student performance, the results of the study are not pretty: The researchers found that three-quarters of all the 674...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Norway
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Norway

...et bredt utvalg av tradisjonelle brød og kaker i Norge, og det sies at nordmenn sannsynligvis spiser mer brød enn noen andre europeere. Norsk brød er vanligvis laget av hvete eller rugmel. Mange er overrasket over å finne at potet er også en vanlig ingrediens i noen tradisjonelle norske oppskrifter, spesielt lefse. Norwegian Skolebrød er en favoritt blandt bade...
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Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...et al. (2012) ‘Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm’, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 201, pp.430–434. British Psychological Society (2013) Time for a Paradigm Shift in Psychiatric Diagnosis Horwitz, Allan and Wakefield, Jerome, (2007) The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder, Oxford: Oxford University Press....
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Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred

...et decorum est pro patria mori", but if it is sweet and decorous to die for one's country, in a stuill higher degree is it to perish in defence of the eternal principles of justice and humanity, without which "The pillar'd firmament is rottenness And earth's base built on stubble" There is, too, our duty to the children, that perennial source of hope and joy, without...
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