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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...data to prove that this is happening. Several different data sets, the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index is one of them, showing that we’ve got a greening occurring in all ecosystems on the planet, in the Amazon rainforest, in the Sahel semi-desert etc. etc. We’ve got greener vegetation as a result of CO2. Now some of it is explained by other things, agricultural...
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Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...analysis, advanced techniques in internet searches for primary and secondary sources, and how to evaluate and identify the most suitable literature on the topic...This free course, Teaching the First World War, is designed for history teachers and their pupils. It provides a wide range of visual, textual and oral sources to enrich the teaching of the First World War. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...data collection for quality assurance and improvement, and thinking about what this means for planning. As you work through the material in this course, you should begin to see a link between this and ongoing debates on accountability, autonomy and markets, which in turn are linked to policy...Leadership: external context and culture: 3 The potential impact of context -...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...analysis, stakeholder mapping and SWOT analysis – and what they are used for. You will need these notes for Activity 4. Drawing on what you have learnt about your own attitude to change, together with specific tools designed to help a manager plan change, in the following activity you will be planning your own change management project...Lead and manage change in health...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?
Nature & Environment

Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?

...data on croplands and their productivity using year 2000 as the reference point and comparing it with urban area projections for 2030, international researchers found that 30 million hectares of crop lands will be lost to growing cities – an area equivalent to the Philippines. Of this, Asia and Africa will lose 24 million hectares of prime agricultural land. With cities...
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How are Ethiopian coffee growers responding to climate change?
Science, Maths & Technology

How are Ethiopian coffee growers responding to climate change?

...data collected on the ground, including historic observations, overlaid on climate maps,” explains Moat. They projected this niche into the future using climate models and scenarios, which revealed that all the models were in general agreement. They then combined this with satellite imagery to come up with the present-day forest coffee area, and the area projected in...
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Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...data, and collections of such things are called ‘statistics’ plural. So statistics (plural) are part of the concern of statistics (singular). According to Stephen Senn, again, the science of statistics ‘has much more in common with philosophy than it does with accounting.’ [A pie chart made from a pie] A pie chart made from a pie. [Image by net_efekt under...
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Download your language survey kit
History & The Arts

Download your language survey kit

...does not allow you to sort or compare people’s choice of words. We suggest you use a different column for each speaker, and perhaps consider grouping your speakers according to age or gender or any other variable that you think may be particularly significant. This should make it much easier for you to classify and interpret your data. Download the 'Words' sheet (199KB)...
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