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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...education (with some stops in between). This movement means you learn a great deal. Statistics in Social Services covers areas such as how many children are in care. Where are they? Are any regions giving rise to unusually high instances of referrals? How often are community service orders used and do offenders re-offend? My own passion was education, and so I worked in...
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Article 10 mins
What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...education, aptitude, teaching program, language proximity or access to interactional opportunities. Language learning is not at all a simple task and most people readily forget that it takes about twelve years to learn your first language. The first five or six years from birth are devoted to acquiring oral fluency and then another six years or so are needed to learn how...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...Education-associated transitions are less obvious and refer to the less formal changes in children’s lives and routines that occur outside an institutional setting. These changes may occur in everyday life away from school but can affect and shape children’s lives and well-being. Divorce would be an example of this sort of change...Developing and managing...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...education and political science at University of California, Berkeley. García Bedolla’s research interests center around the civic engagement, community activity, and educational success of ethnoracial groups in the United States. She is author of Latino Politics. [Donald Trump] Donald Trump: If he's not invited to the party, he might go alone Trump issues a warning...
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An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...education at any level and any context to engage in teacher inquiry, practitioner research or scholarship. Through structured activities introducing the 4D model of appreciative inquiry, you will use story techniques to identify existing strengths...This free course, An appreciative approach to inquiry, is designed to support groups of practitioners or individuals adopt...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...educational achievement - but what is motivation? If we understand motivation a little better, we might get better at helping students to succeed...[Giving up - an image by Dee Ashley] give.up by DeeAshley Did you get where you intended to in life? Are you as healthy, wealthy and wise as you want to be? If not, perhaps the problem is a lack of motivation. Some studies...
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Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important

...Education England, HEE, 2017) and is regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Professional regulators ensure that their registrants are fit to practise in their profession. Unlike non-registrants, such as healthcare support workers, registrants are accountable to the NMC which means they need to be able to account for their actions or omissions and abide by a...
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Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...educational authority, told my mother that I had to complete school because I was one month short of my fifteenth birthday. The local school said I was “educationally sub-normal” and I was sent to the local Secondary Modern School where I was accepted. Before I left secondary school, the headmaster of the local grammar school offered me a place, not on my academic...
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