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Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...Centre for Engineering Design at Cambridge University. For her, one of the biggest myths of the profession is “that you have to be big and strong to work in these sectors.” She goes on: “I’m not big. I’m not strong. But I can certainly do just as much as my other, male colleagues.” Rather than strength, she believes “imagination is the biggest key” for...
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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...children have a right to be protected from. In 1868, in rural Cheshire, John Bradley and his wife died within a few weeks of each other. They left a family of four young children under the age of eight. Several weeks later an aunt investigated, and found the children, still at home, in a filthy condition and half starved. They had survived only by eating raw vegetables...
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What foster carers want you to know
Health, Sports & Psychology

What foster carers want you to know

...children. They are people from all walks of life who open their homes and hearts to children who cannot live with their own families, whether that be for a few days, weeks, months or even years. There can be many reasons why such situations arise, for example family illness, crisis, or situations where home isn’t safe. Fostering is unique in that it combines the...
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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...Centre: mental health, research and the media - The UK's Science Media Centre (SMC), an independent press office that emerged from the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Select Committee in 2002 with the aim of increasing public awareness and trust in science, serves a key role working with journalists and experts within the scientific community. The SMC strives 'to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...researchers as we are, but we’re also really confident that teachers and learners in schools and universities are going to draw on this material. There’s another category we didn’t think of before we started, and that’s the world of natural history and environment filmmaking, both the professionals but also those people who are using the lavish freedoms of digital...
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Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...research about the job and the company (who at the time was First Group) and I did a lot of work on my application. I was fortunate enough to be able to approach two drivers for advice and information. The first was the driver that advised I apply for the job and the second was a driver who would later become my instructor. Only a handful of close colleagues were aware...
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Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...research - SCIE Person-centred thinking - Helen Sanderson Associates Exploring and understanding experiences and decisions in end-of-life care planning with patients and families from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds: Thinking Ahead study by LOROS Hospice Other useful resources from the Growing Older Planning Ahead project: Growing Older – Planning Ahead...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...children’. This research is now regarded as unreliable for a number of reasons, but chiefly because it failed to take account of the socio-economic backgrounds of the young people tested. A major research project carried out in Montreal in 1962 was the first to question the received wisdom on this matter. The linguists Elizabeth Peal and Wallace Lambert compared the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs