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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...
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...
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...
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...
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...English towns and cities, including London, causing casualties and, of course, instilling fear. It is clear that the killing of innocent civilians had a profound impact on public attitudes in Britain. The bombing of the school in East London provided further evidence for many of Germany’s barbaric aggression, as the following extract from The Times indicates: A hard...
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...English ‘theatre’), a term which expresses their responsibility to watch the festival events on behalf of their community. As well as witnessing the festival, theoroi liaised with local leaders, represented their state in the official procession and sacrifice, and carried out a further sacrifice on behalf of their community. They also looked after the interests of...
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...English, soda (natrium in Latin) Na magnesium from Magnesia, a district of Thessaly in Greece Mg aluminium from the Latin, alumen (alum) Al silicon from the Latin, silex (flint) Si sulfur from the Latin name sulphur for the element S chlorine from the Greek, chloros (yellowish green) Cl potassium from the English, potash (symbol from kalium - Latin for alkali) K calcium...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...English term ‘veil’ (like its European variants, such as voile in French) is commonly used to refer to Middle Eastern and South Asian women’s traditional head, face (eyes, nose, or mouth), or body cover. As a noun veil derives, through Middle English and Old North French, from the Latin vēla, pl. of vēlum. The dictionary meaning assigned to it is ‘a covering,’...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs