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Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...work weekends and evenings. I’m not sure if Michael Wilshaw remembers being an inspector and visiting schools, but maybe it has escaped him that teachers have been working weekends and evenings for decades. However, this was also the Chief Inspector who accused teachers of ‘skiving off at 3pm’, so his view of teachers has always been a bit suspect. But in this...
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The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute
Society, Politics & Law

The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute

...worked with on a daily basis, i.e. who they were managed by. Medical Secretaries worked for senior doctors and consultants, transcribing doctor’s notes and discharge letters which contained information relating to diagnosis, prognosis and medications. This work required a high degree of accuracy and was underpinned by a specific qualification. In contrast, Management...
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Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...works as a clickable symbol of solidarity and has established momentum in recognising the immensity of the problem of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. But is Twitter an effective public sphere to bring harassment and assault out into the open where it can be politicised? What is the public sphere? Habermas (1989, cited in Fuchs 2013) argues that the concept...
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Building a crystal radio set
Science, Maths & Technology

Building a crystal radio set

...work. Generally the aerial will be a length of wire, which should be as long and as high as possible. A wire strung from an upstairs window to a distant tree will work well; say 30 metres long and seven metres high. The type of wire is not critical, but PVC covered stranded copper wire of about 2 milimetres diameter will work well. If the wire is too thin it may break in...
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Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive
Education & Development

Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive

...working in Online and Distance Education for twenty years, and in that time I’ve watched online teaching take shape as a mainstream mode of distance education. One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that a lot of teachers are understandably uncertain about how to make their teaching more accessible to neurodivergent students who might have a range of different –...
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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...out there,’ but not necessarily in the daily flow of design work. Then something shifted (Zhang, 2023). When ChatGPT 3.5 arrived in late 2022, suddenly everyone was talking about AI. Only a few months later, an open letter from the Future of Life Institute (2023) called for a pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT‑4. They argued...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...work”. Although we inevitably hear most about high-profile cases of failure, leadership is not a process that just takes place at the top of the hierarchy. If we want to know about leadership and how it works in an organisational setting, we also need to look at how leadership behaviours and attitudes are diffused throughout the whole organisation. What the research...
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Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...worked on the radio and, I suppose, reasonably successfully (I’d worked with Chris Evans for six years)... but I felt towards the end of it – and I'm sure that getting up at 3:45 every morning wasn’t helping my mental state at all – I felt that towards the end of it that I was getting tired and that the challenges of broadcasting were not quite as great as they...
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