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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...English skills, look for free courses (see OpenLearn). Then practice each test again and don’t be tempted to give up! Psychometric test practice websites Try to find out which psychometric tests the employer or sector you are interested in may use, through websites such as www.glassdoor.co.uk or www.graduatesfirst.com, which also provide lots more tips on how to be...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...English gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, established the charity which focuses on the potential of cellular repair to extend lifespans indefinitely. De Grey has claimed provocatively that the first human to live to the age of 1,000 years has probably already been born. Meanwhile, Russian billionaire, Dmitry Itskov founded the ‘2045 Initiative’ in 2011, with the goal of...
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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...English and Guidance teacher and lifelong political activist. During the 1993 Timex strike, she was part of the Timex Support group and continues to campaign on issues of anti-poverty and international solidarity. She spoke to Stella about her experiences of picket line solidarity and the legacy of the 1993 Timex strike. [Mary McGregor]“Everyone in Dundee had an...
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Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...English Dictionary as “the state of being comfortable, healthy or happy”. There is a lot of information about wellbeing and how differently it can be measured. If we look at wellbeing from the angle of experience of health, happiness and being comfortable, and how we feel in terms of our sense of meaning or purpose, managing our stress levels, having good mental...
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Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...English riots of 2011: A summer of discontent. Winchester: Waterside Press, pp. 45–64. Pirbhai-Illich, F., Pete, S. and Martin, F. (2017) Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism. Switzerland: Palgrave McMillan. Taylor, S.V and Sobel, D.M. (2001) Culturally responsive pedagogy: Teaching like our students’ lives matter....
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...English composer, conductor, and author Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) was a close contemporary of Chaminade. She wrote and published a wide range of works: six operas, a Mass, chamber music and songs. Smyth’s opera Der Wald (1901) made history in 1903 as the first by a woman to be staged at the New York Metropolitan Opera. But Smyth wasn’t only a composer. She was also a...
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Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...English as their first language (ONS, 2021). Similarly, Ireland have a well-established traveller community and have seen a huge growth in immigration with considerable evidence of problematic relationships between students from different groupings (Ní Dhuinn & Keane, 2021). This complexity is global too, so for example, in the Czech Republic concern over the inclusion...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...English-speaking families of mixed ethnicity in each family’s home in East London. It found that the experience was of a joint learning enterprise for both children and adults. The children brought their knowledge of the English language and contemporary stories, which they shared. The grandparents brought other aspects of language and tradition, as well as connections...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs