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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...communicated in different ways and we’re still not sure if forecasts are best presented as a single, most-likely case or as a range of probabilities. It is a brave move to change format, and impossible to please everyone. The BBC has an obligation to find the best value. But value should not be confused with price, and cheaper bidders must provide a forecast of...
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Explore the Realm of Pedagogy with Pedagodzilla!
Education & Development

Explore the Realm of Pedagogy with Pedagodzilla!

...Communities of Practice, linked to pop culture by Oliver and Carr (2003) by way of World of Warcraft. The narrative has continued ever since. Pedagodzilla is the story of Mike’s journey to learning more about pedagogy and Mark’s opportunity to offload his pent-up geekiness. Regular guest, Professor Rebecca Ferguson (The Open University), became the third ‘Zilla’...
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Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment
Nature & Environment

Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment

...communities which used to be a common sight but are now rare, for example what level of water and nutrients do they need/can they withstand. Floodplain meadows are of course subject to occasional flooding indeed they act as flood protection areas for cities such as Oxford, we know these high biodiversity plant communities can withstand a certain amount of winter flooding...
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Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...communities both positively and negatively...Exploring evidence-based policing: 1 Evidence-based practices - Over time, both organisations and people develop typical ways of doing of things. For organisations, this can often be referred as the culture – ‘the way we do things around here’ as Deal & Kennedy (1982) put it. This can include both spoken and unspoken...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...communities, living in a state of economic emergency. Woman And if you go down the Whitehouse Road, there’s the Whitehouse Road into Price Centre now, which fourteen year ago, used to be the abattoir but now it's…. Bea Campbell Tyneside is typical. An industrial icon, laid to waste, abandoned by the government and by business. One of its pauperised communities is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...community, there are forums on there, especially where you can ask for advice if there’s something you’re not sure about. You can put a question on there, sometimes with the resources I’ve uploaded instead of writing a comment underneath them people that have used them have sent me a private message over TES. We’ve often exchanged email addresses and they then...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...communities...It is widely recognised that supporting children to become capable and engaged readers plays an important role in their future success. Reading empowers; it facilitates education and employment, and it enriches one’s personal life and growth. Learning to read is therefore a key goal of primary or elementary education, and high-quality literacy instruction...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs