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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...English scientist and monk Roger Bacon were rumoured to have created heads that could talk, dismissed as sacrilegious abominations by their contemporaries. By the late 16th and early 17th centuries, fake talking heads were appearing all over Europe. The novelist Miguel de Cervantes's hero Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza encounter one: The last questioner was...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...English or Welsh time limitations because of work and family lack of internet access health reasons not knowing anyone who will be there unsure about going out alone after dark dislike of formal meetings fear of being asked to do something fear of an unwelcoming atmosphere worry about what might be said concerning a child fear of being held responsible for a child’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...English Riots in the Daily Express Using Moral Panic Theory’, Sociological Research Online, 20(4), pp. 1–10. Olver, K. & Cockbain, E. (2021) ‘Professionals’ Views on Responding to County Lines-Related Criminal Exploitation in the West Midlands, UK’, Child Abuse Review, doi: 10.1002/car.2704 Payne, M. (2009) ‘Modern youth work: purity or common cause?’, in...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...English syntax, just as Example 7b makes no sense within the harmonic language of the late eighteenth century. Most musicians would reduce this instinctively, on the basis that one version sounds right and the other sounds wrong. However, there are objective criteria for the reduction, namely the criteria of consonance and dissonance. In Mozart's style, dissonances make...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...English Dictionary). This includes looking at variables, factors, and relationships between things, as well as examining ideas and problems, and detecting and analysing arguments. Many essay questions require argument. Skills in manipulating content to make a good argument can make the difference between higher and lower assignment grades. You can start to explore the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...English National Curriculum KS3 test questions, which suggests some potential lack of fairness in testing regimes. It is likely that these issues raised by Cooper’s research relating to assessment apply to all testing regimes. Consider the implications from this (and other) research, which shows that poorer children: … go into lower sets … … so they are entered...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...English essay his teacher would later describe as among the best he had read, police knocked at the door of the family home in Meldreth, a village ten miles south of Cambridge. Steve Mallen was at home, alone. “You become painfully aware that something appalling has happened,” he recalls. “You go through the description, they offer commiserations and a booklet, and...
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Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...English speaking adults, followed by a short dharma talk. After that, meditation will take place. Beginners will be instructed and guided. Advanced meditators will be practising on their own. We call it a day retreat. We just meditate on your own, no instruction, we just do whatever meditation you prefer. Mainly, they want a bit of fresh air, the meditators can go to that...
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