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Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...Technology Professor Stephen Hawking was an inspiration to me to become not just a scientist but a communicator of that science. His work as a cosmologist, and discoveries in black hole physics were legendary. His best-known prediction, named by the community as Hawking Radiation, transformed black holes from inescapable gravitational prisons into objects that instead...
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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...technologies was developed and became operational within 18 months. Box 1 Choatic scheme that left families relying on food parcels Demands mount for overhaul of aid that led to ‘debt and despair’ Gordon Brown, the chancellor, faced fresh calls last night for a radical overhaul of the tax credit system after the Treasury published figures showing that administration...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...educational attainment and poor literacy/numeracy skills, are unemployed and come from a lower income or impoverished background. There is a stronger link, therefore, between poverty and prisons than there is between dangerousness and prisons. In the U.S. around 16,000 people die each year as a result of street crime. Contrast this with the 55,000 who die as a result of...
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Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130)
Education & Development

Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130)

...Educational Resources available. Just click on an example to see what courses each individual would choose to study! If you are a Young Applicant in Schools Scheme (YASS) Scotland student, there is further information about YXM130 available for you here: OpenLearn choices for YASS students - OpenLearn - Open University. Remember, it is entirely up to you what you study!...
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TESSA: Using Local Resources
Education & Development

TESSA: Using Local Resources

...TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa) initiative... TESSA - Excursion Jude takes Kevwe to a court to see how justice works TESSA - No Hiding Place Vitus, a policeman, goes into school to explain his work TESSA - The Art Work A local artist lets the school down but the children make up for it TESSA - Kite For Rent Adjua makes a kite with some help from others....
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Ouverture: Intermediate French
Languages

Ouverture: Intermediate French

...education classes, time spent in French-speaking countries, regular contact with French-speaking people or other sources. The course materials are carefully designed to develop the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. They also contain activities focusing on practicing language structures, grammatical explanations and learning strategies. This...
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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
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...technology stories...[Close-up of a Sinclair ZX81 keyboard] The Apple tax judgement The European Commission has, this morning, announced that Apple will have to pay the Irish Government €13billion in back taxes. BBC News has the story: "Member states cannot give tax benefits to selected companies - this is illegal under EU state aid rules," said Commissioner Margarethe...
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