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Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...become cost-effective. Renewables now provide 42% of UK electricity, 29% globally and the industry is growing exponentially. Despite this, globally, fossil fuel companies receive nineteen times greater levels of subsidies compared to renewable energy. Additionally, fossil fuel companies, often with government support, continue to prospect for more oil and gas globally,...
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EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...become perplexing. When it comes to frameworks for evaluating the quality of educational technology (EdTech), the proliferation of evaluation frameworks has led to uncertainty among educators and decision-makers. Which evaluation framework holds validity and which one should be adopted as the definitive framework for establishing what works in children’s EdTech?...
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Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...becoming a Dove Partner. Nobody thought this would result in court action, but the EHRC believed in my right to attend school as myself and funded my case. We’ve continued to work closely with them, and I was proud to help launch new school guidance and for my story to be included as a resource for schools. I intend to keep speaking about this until the issue is solved....
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Parlez-vous Eurovision?
Languages

Parlez-vous Eurovision?

...becoming a monolingual event, it remains a multicultural event. It really is hard to tell sometimes whether the costumes, songs and choreographies are meant to represent the best or the worst of the country. Diversity, gender politics, and human rights have become main issues in the contest. Last year’s clearly audible booing of the Russian entry because of their...
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WhatDoTheyKnow
Society, Politics & Law

WhatDoTheyKnow

...ou have the right to request information from any publicly-funded body, and get answers. WhatDoTheyKnow helps you make a Freedom of Information request. It also publishes all requests online." It was initiated by non-governmental organisation/charity and encourages people to participate through an online platform. WhatDoTheyKnow is local and national in orientation and...
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Jumpstart University
Education & Development

Jumpstart University

Aimed to help students starting university this year to prepare for and settle into their studies, the Jumpstart University hub has been developed by The Open University in collaboration with the Russell Group.
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Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...becomes ‘ero’. Conversely, in other SE words, there is the tendency to overemphasise and pronounce the ‘h’ sound at the beginning of words that do not require it, therefore the SE word ‘egg’ becomes ‘hegg’ and ‘exam’ becomes ‘hexam’. In terms of social status, Jamaican patois falls at one extreme of the linguistic spectrum while SE lies at the...
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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...students have completed online workshops on ocean, earth, pedagogy, and personal development since 1991. With colleagues from the National Geographic, the National Marine Educators Association, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, he helped co-organize the USA ocean literacy...
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