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Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths
Education & Development

Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths

...student engagement, made this comment when asked about what her family think about mathematics: “My mum doesn’t really like me asking her because she thinks she doesn’t have a maths brain. She thinks that she’s got more of an English brain than anything else.” Not surprisingly, Molly was not the only child who made that kind of comment. Parents’ negative...
Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...students from poorer backgrounds have been scrapped. The teenage years are associated with risky and problematic behaviours for everyone. But these behaviours are aggravated by poverty, inequality, school exclusions, mental illness and chaotic family circumstances. Rather than thinking of violence among young people solely as a crime problem, it should be considered a...
What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. Today, it is more usually Chinese or Hispanic migrants who find themselves accused of being English-language learning refuseniks. Anyone who has ever been in contact with...
What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...become a senior researcher but wondered if I could ever manage caring alongside the demands of employment. I love research because it gives me the flexibility I need to be able to support my sibling. Employers should be aware that carers like us need understanding, flexibility and extra support. I want to make a difference with the research I am doing, but I will always...
Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?

...becoming more and more susceptible to commercial pressures and parents and coaches often encouraging children to participate in intensive training and highly competitive events in their specialised sport at a young age. There are various definitions for early specialisation however typically it involves continual year-round training in a single sport between the ages of 6...
"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?
Languages

"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?

...becomes diluted and the word begins to denote a simpler, often fleeting, everyday emotion. The problem is that mental health disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and bi-polar disorder are not simple and fleeting and everyday. They are complex illnesses that require treatment. But when the technical terms for them begin to mean something everyday, it...
The age of offence
Society, Politics & Law

The age of offence

...become an integral part of modern life. The news media regularly spark moral panics about the rise of a new McCarthyism, we’re told that universities are suffering from a crisis of academic freedom, politics has become an all-out struggle over competing claims of victimhood, and everywhere people seem to be ever more offended by an ever wider range of issues. So what...
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...become familiar with the deeper levels of harmony in Mozart's piano sonatas...This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground, continues our examination of 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained through the analysis of piano...