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What is Talk Factory?
Education & Development

What is Talk Factory?

...system. [A screenshot from the app shows a bar graph with green. orange, yellow and blue bars against a grey background. The vertical axis shows the number of occurrences and the horizontal axis shows the kind of behaviour, ranging from "explain reasons" to "interrupt".] What do teachers say about Talk Factory? Feedback from teachers is overwhelmingly positive: “The...
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Prospecting for water on the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Prospecting for water on the Moon

...System. These areas act as vast ‘cold traps’: many chemical substances such as water, other ices and organic compounds delivered to the Moon by asteroid and comet impacts would migrate to the poles and accumulate there in a permanent deep freeze. Our Moon may therefore be witness to billions of years of history of water and other important molecules in the vicinity of...
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Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...system. Local leaders’ responses to the uncertainty about when children will return to school have meant looking for creative ways to keep learning going. For many in low-income countries the solutions have focused on low-tech approaches (e.g. radio broadcast in local communities). A recent blog post by Power (2020) on Activating local study-groups for children’s...
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Osprey process
Science, Maths & Technology

Osprey process

...system before entry into the atomiser. The gases also act as a protective atmosphere to prevent oxidation of the spray droplets. An integral part of the preforming unit is the preforming mechanism to which the preform collector is attached. This is driven by means of a hydraulic power pack, which is programmed to perform a sequence of movements under the spray so as to...
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Business Bursts: Supply chain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Supply chain

...system. And in the case of automobile manufacturers or car manufacturers they seek to shorten those lean supply chains so that the cost at each stage of production from buying the steel, to part manufacturer supplying them with steering wheels or wheels, creates a greater value for them at less cost. Nick Spencer, Supply Chain Director: MINI Oxford Our customers value the...
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Writing for pleasure?
Education & Development

Writing for pleasure?

...system? Do we ourselves see writing as a pleasurable form of self-expression; a way of making sense, a social act of making meaning in an uncertain world? Are professional conceptions of writing so heavily framed by the Government’s criteria for writing at the ‘expected standard’ that the voice and verve of the young and their personal engagement in writing is being...
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Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?
Nature & Environment

Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?

...system for new houses (the foundation of modern UK home Energy Performance Certificates). The tests on the passive solar houses showed that they were so successful and cost-effective that MKDC introduced its own building regulations for all of the city’s new houses. They had to be insulated to standards that wouldn’t be matched in the UK national regulations until...
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Introducing environment
Nature & Environment

Introducing environment

...systems? It's no secret that climate change is caused by our over-dependence on fossil fuels...so what can we do about it? This is an album with a difference; YOU get the chance to find out how YOUR personal shopping choices are affecting the climate. How addicted to fossil fuels are you? Using the interactive video feature, start off on track 2 and follow the easy...
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