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Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...system. So in fact, every principle of-- I think there are 360 schools in Singapore. So there are 360 principals, which is another big difference with the UK-- the comparison of size, of course. Every principal in Singapore is a government officer. So they have a very clear duty to fall in line with government policy on education. They're provided with a very big, thick...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...think of something, get it down. It doesn’t have to be a traditional paper notebook (though these are wonderful things). You can use your phone if you would rather. But Get It Down – forgetting that great idea for chapter three that you had in the supermarket queue is so frustrating. And often those ideas have gone for good. Pretend to be Jack Kerouac. Possibly the...
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Article 5 mins
Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...system functioned. Rather than work around those gaps, I decided to address some of them directly. 6. What is the project’s argument? [Book cover of Print and Party Politics in Ireland, 1689-1714, by Suzanne Forbes.]Although individual petitions or reports have been cited, material in the Journals of the Irish House of Commons relating to controverted elections has not...
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Article 5 mins
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...thinking about what your brain does You could have come up with many different things. For example, the brain controls our movements and our basically bodily functions such as hunger and thirst. It also allows us to interact with the world around us by interpreting information collected by our sense organs and providing a means by which this can affect our behaviour. Of...
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Article 1 hr
Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...system called “instant runoff.” This system has been proposed as an alternative to our traditional election method – called “plurality voting” – by several politicians, including 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. It has also been implemented in various municipal elections in the United States. Many other multi-candidate election methods have...
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Article 5 mins
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...think we should make a completely general global hypertext system, the very proper answer at CERN was, well, that's fine, but it's not what we're here for. So in fact, it was only because my boss, Mike Sandel, who had a sort of twinkle in his eye, and thought, hm, I don't know what exactly this is about, but I have a feeling that it sounds kind of exciting. And he said,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...system as they grow older. It has been developed from a cutting-edge research project that explored how to improve the care and support for older people with learning disabilities and their families...Do you care for an adult or a sibling with learning disabilities who is middle aged or older? Is the advice and support you need hard to come by? Do you have concerns and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Asteroids
Science, Maths & Technology

Asteroids

...system? Samuel Jackson, PhD student in The School of Physical Sciences digs into the research... [City lights - Central America. Elements of this image furnished by NASA] ​ Can a space rock from Costa Rica reveal the origin of water on Earth? Ross Findlay, a Cosmochemistry PhD Student in The School of Physical Sciences, explores different types of meteorites which have...
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Article 15 mins