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Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...law actually used to work with Professor Norman Myers, so he’s a well-known environmentalist, known for things like his work on biodiversity and his work on climate refugees, etc. So together they wrote the second edition of The Gaia Atlas, so I was kind of immersed in that world as well for about the last 10 years or so, having lovely debates with Norman about the...
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Video 30 mins
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...laws of physical reality.” As for the effects on language and motor development, he hypothesises that there could be displacement going on. “The technology may be used as a nanny in place of face-to-face learning. Babies always learn better from people, but we don’t always have time.” Devices like iPads may give lots of stimulation but lack the nuanced real-time...
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Article 5 mins
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...law and intellectual tradition – and as a festival city. Edinburgh presents a series of unique challenges as a living city that is also a World Heritage site. Clearly, it would be impossible to stall all new development in a living city, so the management plan puts in place a series of controls to ensure that new developments enhance or contribute to the significant...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...law, three generations of a criminal’s family would be executed. In Japanese and Korean the word for ‘human being’ translates as ‘human between’. The sense of self is looser in Asia than in the West, and more absorbent. It expands to include the various groups an individual is a member of. This brings a profound sense of responsibility for others that stirs...
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Article 15 mins
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...Law, Environmental/Conservation and Social Work are common examples but there are many others. Positions in the Arts, Media, Publishing, Development and Charitable sectors are rarely advertised and are also difficult to enter without a network of contacts, direct practical experience of the industry and enormous enthusiasm. For more details on any of these look at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...law, that is all it can be used for, and let's have the safeguard that it can't be used for any other purpose, it can't be used to film teenagers who are hanging around in a shopping cente, because they've got nowhere else to go, and that infonnation being recorded on a police file, or a private security firms file, even though they've done nothing wrong. And I'm...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...Law Review, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 765–807. Schweisfurth, M. (2013) Learner-centred education in international perspective: whose pedagogy for whose development?, London, Routledge. Subrahmanian, R. (2002) ‘Citizenship and the “right to education”: Perspectives from the Indian context’, IDS Bulletin, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 1–10 [online]. Available at
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...law, and the interest rate charged by the Student Loans Company (SLC) has, to date, been linked to the rate of price inflation by law. However, changes to the arrangements for fees for higher education in England, and to student loans to finance fee payments, presaged by the Browne Report (Browne, 2010), mean that this linkage may not apply in the future...You and your...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs