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COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...account many factors including the health of the population. And it is vital that decisions are taken with correctly analysed data. It is also vital that as citizens we have thorough, reliable information with which to judge the political decision of our representatives. In these fast-changing circumstances, it is therefore crucial that we remain cautious about such...
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Article 10 mins
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...accountable first and foremost to those it is intended to protect, as opposed to those it rules against? By focusing on actions against perpetrators as a measure of the law we lose our focus on compensating, responding to and caring for victims. Thus a major reconfiguration of the way the legal system works would be the first step towards abolition. This is especially...
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Article 12 mins
Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...accounts of their experiences of learning mathematics. It begins to show how such personal experiences can be explored and can inform the shared communal culture of published writing. Everybody can remember incidents from their own learning of mathematics. Some incidents may be positive and others negative. What influence might such memories have on the teaching and...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...accounts from some 200 or so students. I got colleagues to also give me their opinion then cross-checked what [the writer] was suggesting with what seemed relevant in my population and then sort of added and subtracted based on that so that I could try and come up with something that was perhaps more appropriate for my area. [EdD student, Year 3] Points for you to...
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Article 2 mins
How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...accountability and incentivisation. Raising awareness, digital carbon literacy Since digital technologies offer all sorts of benefits compared to alternatives, including cost and carbon avoidance – such as reduction in travel, printing, waste and faster more efficient transactions – there is a tendency to think that digital is the carbon-free choice. Unfortunately,...
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Article 5 mins
Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...account founded by Dr Joy Harden Bradford which provides resources and news for Black women. https://www.instagram.com/therapyforblackgirls/ Therapy for Black men Interesting articles, particularly for Black men, as well as on the challenges of experiencing and seeking help for mental health issues. https://therapyforblackmen.org/articles/ Young Black men programme A...
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Video 10 mins
QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...accountability the home associations have to FIFA, and financial power of other member associations. For example, FIFA Development Activities in Africa (1999–2012) had numerous activities, one being FIFA courses which were FIFA-run educational courses in the areas of coaching, refereeing, women’s football, futsal, administrative and medical matters. The duration of...
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Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...account both of the exalted status of the gods and heroes who were depicted in them and of the elevating moral messages that they offered to the viewer. At least, this was the theory; the practice was often rather different, as we will see from considering examples produced during the Napoleonic era. This was increasingly to be the case as the nineteenth century...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs