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My career goal: Social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

My career goal: Social care

...change lives by using your personal skills to aid those in need. Your communication skills, resilience and empathy are key assets when working in social care, a crucial societal structure that matters to everybody...Social care: changing lives This short video shows the impact that social workers have on young people. Transcript The following video clips explore various...
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The Arch Never Sleeps
Science, Maths & Technology

The Arch Never Sleeps

...change. Using case studies of Ely Cathedral in England and Chartres in France, the tracks on this album examine the way in which the design of arches developed in the early middle ages, and use mathematical models to explore some of the problems faced and overcome by the stone masons. This material makes up part of the course MST209, Mathematical methods and models... The...
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Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...changed with the introduction of women to the workforce and how weaving offers a high status and great opportunities to those who are skilled in it Ghana: Kente past and present The origin, meanings and tradition of the patterns of Kente cloth is explained in more detail. The need to create new and saleable designs is also discussed Ghana: Introduction to Adinkra The...
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Migrant parenting
Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...changes in Europe. The fall of communism in the late 1980s, so vividly represented by the crumbling Berlin Wall, ushered the Eastern and Central European countries into an era of democracy and brought with it the capitalist values which started to replace the socialist principles of the previous regime. One of the consequences of this political move was the opportunity...
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Creativity and artificial intelligence
Languages

Creativity and artificial intelligence

...changes. The impact that the invention of photography had on fine art is a useful analogy here. Pictorial creativity didn’t cease in the mid-19th century when Fox Talbot and Daguerre pioneered photography. But it did change – and change in radical ways. The second assumption that underpins the argument is that because machines can do something, there’s no point in...
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Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...changes led to its relatively recent closure? In it's heyday in the 1970s, Lennox Castle Hospital in Scotland housed over 1600 patients in purpose built multi-occupancy villas, and most staff lived on site or in nearby Lennoxtown. Oral historian Howard Mitchell started his working life there, as a member of the hospital's nursing staff. In the tracks on this album, he...
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Audio 2 hrs 7 mins
After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?
Society, Politics & Law

After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?

...climatic and environmental conditions that precipitated the recent devastating mudslide on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown, are a function of man’s unnatural relationship with nature. But what to do about it? As in all emergencies, it was those closest to the disaster that provided the immediate help. Those trapped in the mud would have died waiting for a search...
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Does it snow on Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does it snow on Mars?

...climate – and that it is very windy and at times cloudy (though too cold and dry for rainfall). But does it snow? Might settlers on Mars be able to see the red planet turn white? A new study surprisingly suggests so. Mars is clearly cold enough for snow. It has ice – the amount of which has varied significantly over time. When its axis is tilted at only a small angle...
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