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Introducing global development issues
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development issues

...technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and consider how we might better respond to them. You will identify how the four key challenges of conflict, governance, justice, and transformation cut-across all areas...
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Globalisation and the English language
History & The Arts

Globalisation and the English language

...technology – that has had the greatest impact on the English language. English is a world language now, the dominant language of science, computing and academia in general. But looking back 100 years, to the start of the first world war, it wasn’t so clear that English would be so dominant. People stayed in the area they grew up in, but we’ve seen tremendous changes...
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Studying Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying Engineering

...technologies, energy and sustainability, electronics, or mathematical methods. Alternatively, you may wish to investigate our BSc (Hons) Natural Sciences degree, which allows you to choose a general science study route or to follow a more specialised route in biology, chemistry, physics, Earth sciences, environmental science, or planetary science. If you already have an...
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Water Treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Water Treatment

...technology. Dealing With Water Emergencies In 1997 Hanningfield Reservoir hit the news when sewage was pumped into the water system. The panel discusses how negative press can be avoided and what lessons were learned. Consulting The Public The value of consistent, timely communication through the media when taking action in a time of drought Is Recycling Water Good?...
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A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...education setting to develop an understanding of effective mentoring of beginner teachers in the initial teacher education and newly qualified phases. It has been designed using the experiences of colleagues working within the Welsh education system, but the messages about the principles of effective mentoring and coaching and the important role mentors have as...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place
History & The Arts

Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place

...technologies.” This activist spirit stems from what The Guardian has called the “greatest protest song ever”. Young wrote the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song “Ohio” in May 1970 in response to the shootings of four Kent State University students by the US National Guard during a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. His activism has more recently led him to...
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Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...technology for mental health problems is not a new thing, in the past mediums such as cassette tapes and VHS/video have been used as means to deliver help for psychological issues. In fact, the first attempts at computerised therapy occurred almost 50 years ago, starting with ELIZA in the 1960’s. ELIZA aimed to simulate a therapeutic conversation using a script based on...
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Beachbrains
Science, Maths & Technology

Beachbrains

...technological revisions, papers in Expert Systems currently present excellent results with ANNs based on a few hundred neurons. But it is still a long way from getting a ‘beachful of silicon’ thinking. Not because it is the most polished or complete but because it is focused on leveraging artificial neural nets through the Internet, the Artificial Intelligence...
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