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Looking globally: the future of education
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...think critically and to offer creative solutions for problems that no-one has yet considered. Is education fit for the future in your context? What do you think the purpose of education should be? How should it respond to global drivers of change? In this free course you'll reflect on possible purposes for education. You'll then look to the future to think about what...
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...system. Activity 5 Thinking about the ambition of justice Timing: (Allow 10 minutes) Reflect on the statements in Box 2 below. These are all drawn from government or legal sources. What words and ambitions do these have in common? Comment The statements are drawn from the Scottish Government’s Justice Strategy, the website of the judiciary in Scotland (who are separate...
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...think, hairdressers must use equations and proportionately when dyeing hair and nurses have to use mathematics accurately every day in their job. Given the prevalence of mathematics concepts in an effectively functioning society it should be a surprise that mathematics teachers are asked, “why do we have to do this?” But it is asked in every classroom, most days....
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...think means dog’s body. And I started in radio with someone called Tony Soper who made a film about geese up in Scotland and then I went into television in a small way with Look with Sir Peter Scott and the famous Heinz Sielmann Becker film which was a… I didn’t used to call it the watercooler moment, but people talked about the fact that you could see inside a...
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...thinking about sequences of events that led to a certain conclusion, or thinking about how you felt or reacted at a point in time. At this level, we are quite used to the idea of reflecting on our own actions. Reflective practice is a term strongly associated with learning in professional contexts such as teaching, nursing or social work and can be thought of in a number...
Why has English taken over academia?
Languages

Why has English taken over academia?

...system Some solutions to these problems have focused on devising language policies which are meant to safeguard local languages. For instance, many Nordic universities have adopted a “parallel language policy”, which accords equal status to English and to the national language (or languages, in the case of Finland, which has two official languages, Finnish and...
Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...systems. What’s more, because the flaw is located in such a fundamental part of the computer, there’s no way to know whether or not a machine has been targeted and what data might have been accessed. Both the main flaw (Spectre), and the Intel-only flaw (Meltdown) have been created by a design technique intended to enhance the chips’ performance known as...
Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists
Nature & Environment

Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists

...system. “The rate of change is challenging the current scientific capacity to monitor and predict what is becoming a journey into uncharted territory.” The WMO is the United Nations’ main agency responsible for weather, climate and water. Its president, David Grimes, said: “The Arctic is a principal, global driver of the climate system and is undergoing an...