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Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...work has been recently published in Nature Climate Change, Nature, Climatic Change, Regional Environmental Change, Climate Policy. Climate Analytics Climate Analytics - Facebook Climate Analytics - Twitter Transcript Bill Hare Interview Stories of Change Project Interview Transcript Key RH: = Roger Harrabin BH: = Bill Hare, founder and CEO of Climate Analytics. Physicist...
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Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...work. Mathematics is not simply a fixed collection of facts but a complex discipline. Consequently assessment in secondary mathematics should not be concerned only with what facts students can recall. Rather attention needs to be paid to the different elements of mathematics including students’ conceptual understanding of key ideas and their connections, investigative...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...working in care establishments, and how grief was reported in UK newspapers. ...The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedent disruption to our daily lives, changing the way we educate, the way we work and the way in which we care for the dying and ultimately say goodbye to our loved ones. COVID-19 is not only a public health crisis, but a psychological one, provoking...
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Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...works on the site in 1830. This remained in operation until 1897, after which the works fell into decay, with only a few buildings remaining occupied and maintained. One was Danygraig House; the others were a stable and the former school for tinplate workers' children. In time, even Danygraig House became derelict, and in 1981 the whole site was taken over by the National...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...work weekends and evenings. I’m not sure if Michael Wilshaw remembers being an inspector and visiting schools, but maybe it has escaped him that teachers have been working weekends and evenings for decades. However, this was also the Chief Inspector who accused teachers of ‘skiving off at 3pm’, so his view of teachers has always been a bit suspect. But in this...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...work”. Although we inevitably hear most about high-profile cases of failure, leadership is not a process that just takes place at the top of the hierarchy. If we want to know about leadership and how it works in an organisational setting, we also need to look at how leadership behaviours and attitudes are diffused throughout the whole organisation. What the research...
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The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute
Society, Politics & Law

The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute

...worked with on a daily basis, i.e. who they were managed by. Medical Secretaries worked for senior doctors and consultants, transcribing doctor’s notes and discharge letters which contained information relating to diagnosis, prognosis and medications. This work required a high degree of accuracy and was underpinned by a specific qualification. In contrast, Management...
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Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...works as a clickable symbol of solidarity and has established momentum in recognising the immensity of the problem of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. But is Twitter an effective public sphere to bring harassment and assault out into the open where it can be politicised? What is the public sphere? Habermas (1989, cited in Fuchs 2013) argues that the concept...
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