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What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...thinking, present their views and get feedback through peer-review - all supported by technologies. The digital age has enabled the read/write culture. It has created a landscape of opportunities and challenges for novice and expert writers. These includes the production and dissemination of information and knowledge by anyone, anywhere, at any time. People can access,...
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Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...System. Although conditions on other planets and bodies in space look inhospitable, ingredients that could host life might be present. If life exists in any of the worlds we hope to explore, conscientious mission teams cannot leave its protection to chance. We know life is found on Earth in the most extreme conditions and terrestrial hitch-hikers can survive space travel....
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Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...systemic biases still limit women’s opportunities in academia. From funding gaps to authorship bias and exclusion from leadership, this article explores key barriers and outlines strategies for a more inclusive research environment...Universities – whose name derives from the Latin ‘universitas’ meaning ‘the whole’ – must foster inclusive environments where...
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Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...think about what ‘childhood’ means to you. Activity 1 Childhood Timing: 5 minutes Discussion This activity was designed to get you thinking about what the term ‘childhood’ means to you, and to look at some of the key legal milestones in a person’s life, such as when they can get a job or get married. Although the law often uses age to determine when a child is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
History & The Arts

Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?

...think there is a difference, this might reveal something interesting about the way we think about morality. It is easy to think that the contrast with thinking morally is thinking selfishly. After all, the moral thing to do is (for example) to divide the cake equally rather than cutting a very large slice for ourselves. Putting it another way, when we deliberate ......
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Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...systems of criminal justice, including prisons. Over the next eight sessions you will encounter examples of education in many different UK prisons, including gaols, bridewells, penitentiaries, local prisons and convict prisons. However, you will keep returning to one: Lincoln Castle Gaol. Now a prison museum, Lincoln Castle Gaol provides both a captivating backdrop and a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...think tank, that by 2020 the average Briton will be poorer than they were at the turn of the millennium. They also project, for example, that low earners will be 15% poorer by 2020 than they are currently. So what we are seeing is an attempt to redirect people’s entirely justifiable anger at the ever declining living standards from those responsible for the current...
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...think it was in the Antarctic that I really became aware of the real wonders of the natural world, because it was just so spectacular, so on our doorstep, so special and we were working with it, we were involved with it, we worked with the penguins underwater and all the rest, so I would say it was late in coming, I’m not someone who was interested in natural history...
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