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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...families and friendship groups and our access to engaging reading materials. Reflecting on the factors that influenced your own reading journey will help you understand the children in your class as readers. With such a significant drop in children choosing to read as a pastime, it is the responsibility of policy makers, school leaders, educators, librarians, community...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...family. Part of effective pain management includes parents, who want to, becoming involved in their child’s pain management, which needs to be encouraged so that parents feel empowered to become involved in reducing the pain experienced by their child in hospital. The information presented will enable you to gain knowledge and insight into evidence-based practice, in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...family. Her only sister was training to be an accountant with a bright future, but as Sofi was less academic the opportunities available to her in Malaysia were limited to perhaps marriage. Scotland offered Sofi the chance to train in the nursing profession, with a new life, in a new country, with more opportunities. However, life in Scotland brought its own challenges....
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Life-changing scholarships and bursaries at The Open University
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Life-changing scholarships and bursaries at The Open University

...family, we can ensure that nobody misses out on the chance to achieve their dreams and ambitions. Click here to support the Open Futures Fund today Offering disabled veterans a new start When veterans are injured or disabled during or due to service, adapting to civilian can feel like an impossible feat. The Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund offers these brave...
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Article 5 mins
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...families presumably because I mean if you’re having seven people, an average of seven people, you can hardly have separate bedrooms for everybody. I mean you’re talking about the average family I think declining to a 1900 average of about three and a half per – children per family? Jason Reid: That is correct and it just makes sense, if you’ve got less children...
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Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems

...tree. These patterns of genetic diversity are disrupted when two populations from different regions are mixed. The seven lions used in this translocation came from two parks in South Africa. They have ancestors from several South African regions and Namibia. All African lions are considered to belong to a single subspecies. However, there is a clear genetic difference...
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The Dates of the Buddha
History & The Arts

The Dates of the Buddha

...tree] Buddhism is one of the most influential traditions of the Eastern world, with about two and a half thousand years of development. It has touched and adorned virtually every single aspect of Asian society: its lore, mythology, morals, art and even metaphysics and religion, despite the fact the Buddha, its founder, does not seem to have had any kind of metaphysical or...
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When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs
Education & Development

When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs

...tree’. Contrast this with a sentence such as ‘“Apple” comes from the Old English word “æppel”’. In this case, the sentence is about the word itself, not the fruit, so ‘apple’ is mentioned rather than used. Applying this to slurs, mentioning an offensive word shouldn’t, in principle, carry the same meaning as using it to target and insult someone. In...
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