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Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...motivations, conflicts, and potential cooperation among actors. These considerations – actors, issues and debates – can be a valuable tool to help in organising your knowledge about, and enquiries into, IR. [Described image] Figure 2 Actors, issues and debates...Introducing International Relations: 2.1 Actors in international relations - ‘Actors’ in international...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...et al. (2015) have concluded: ‘that thorium fuel offers little benefit over conventional uranium-fuelled approaches for open-cycle nuclear energy production limited to the Low-Enriched Uranium standard of 20% 235U. We suggest that short- to medium-term interest in thorium should be restricted to those countries with an interest in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing or with...
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Article 10 mins
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...et al. (2005) found that tests of general mental ability and specific cognitive abilities (verbal, numerical, perceptual and spatial) are valid predictors of both job performance and training success, especially for job roles that require complex thinking. Psychologists use different psychological theories to inform the content of each psychometric test plus statistical...
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Article 10 mins
Green Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Green Brexit?

...ETS) - seen by many as the world's foremost market implement for carbon emissions reduction? JJ: Brexit does give more scope for the right-wing ideologues in the Cabinet to undermine existing international agreements, especially as they largely seek to by-pass Parliament by making policy via trade deals. My answer, as before, is to kick them out at the next election....
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Article 10 mins
Oes gen i broblemau iechyd meddwl ac a ddylwn i gael help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oes gen i broblemau iechyd meddwl ac a ddylwn i gael help?

...in Welsh] Cyfeirnod Schaefer, J. D. et al. (2017). Enduring mental health: Prevalence and prediction. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126(2), 212-224. Mae’r adnodd hwn yn rhan o ‘Gasgliad Llesiant ac Iechyd Meddwl’ wedi ei greu gan y Brifysgol Agored yng Nghymru. Gallwch ddysgu mwy a dod o hyd i gyrsiau, erthyglau a gweithgareddau eraill ar dudalen hafan y casgliad....
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Article 10 mins
Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...et al, 2002). Moderators’ efforts to be even-handed in dealing with problematic posting in the teacher-student forum ended in them becoming complicit with the covert racism. We can all be influenced by the messages society constructs around us, which are negative towards groups other than white, unless we make sure we have critical overview of our actions. It’s from...
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Article 10 mins
The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...death. Boulanger became the first woman to win France’s famous composition competition, the Prix de Rome (which women had only been allowed to enter since 1903), in 1913 for her cantata Faust et Hélène. Despite her brief career, Lilian Boulanger also composed dozens of compositions, including piano works, songs, and several large-scale works for choir and orchestra....
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Article 10 mins
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...et al., 2016), and can be explained by the use of a lower case and capital letter: Small ‘p’ politics refers to any form of social organisation where matters are concerned with getting or using power within a particular group e.g., there is plenty of ‘office’ politics within, and often between, sports organisations. Big ‘P’ Politics often focuses on...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs