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Wimbledon - The Championships
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wimbledon - The Championships

...sport, such as the challenges faced when returning to compete after becoming a mother. Anyone for tennis? Take a look at more tennis related content, including a focus on the Williams sisters and advances in sporting technology. Game(s). Set. Match Coach an athlete to sporting glory in our Medal Quest game, or discover your perfect sport in our Olympisize Me interactive....
Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...emerge out of the experience of Dr Andrea Berardi, a Lecturer in Environmental Information Systems at The Open University. He is a co-investigator on Project COBRA. COBRA is researching ways to integrate community solutions within policies addressing escalating social, economic and environmental crises, through accessible information and communication technologies....
9/11: Attack on the Wires
Science, Maths & Technology

9/11: Attack on the Wires

...dealt with the unprecedented technological challenges by using techniques such as call gapping to help free up other services... The AT and T Network How AT and T handled the unprecedented rise in phone calls. Call Gapping A way in the network distributed calls to avoid an overload. Statistical Spikes AT and T completed a record 430 million call completions on 9/11....
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...education is potentially problematic; it is open to multiple interpretations and can create confusion for educators who work to make all the reading undertaken – in English lessons, in projects and in cross curricula and extra curricula contexts – pleasurable. But in order to foster reading for pleasure in schools, homes and community contexts, conceptual clarity is...
Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.

...education. But bullying school cultures, where transgender students feel unsafe and unable to learn, pose a major threat to this fundamental right. In 2011, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon identified that sexual orientation and gender identity and expression–based bullying is “not restricted to a few countries but goes on in schools… in all parts of...
Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast

...education...Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a complex, abusive, cultural, and ritualistic harmful practice performed on millions of women and girls worldwide with many more at risk. It is a major source of concern globally, nationally and regionally, in terms of social justice, human rights, gender inequality, health and well-being and health inequalities. FGM is...
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...Education and Technology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 257–68...Teaching secondary science: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Sandra Amos. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...educational linguist and Jonathan Rosa, an anthropologist in 2015. It refers to a belief that language has a role in producing racial differences and the construction of race has a role in producing differences in language. Essentially, it is a perspective that believes race and language are interrelated. Language has a role in producing racial differences and that the...