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Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...2. Offer detailed guidance on how long different tasks should typically take. Where relevant, explain how assessments connect to real-world practice to boost engagement. 2. Offer proactive, warm and timely tutor support Studies repeatedly show that proactive contact from tutors – not waiting for students to ask first – is especially valuable for Black and minority...
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Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...2 The evolving devolution settlement - As you will see in the first section of this course, the devolution settlement in Wales was transformed in the two decades following the 1997 referendum. House of Commons researcher, David Torrance, set out five phases of this transformation, charting the transfer of powers from Wales to Westminster. As you work through this course,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...2). This gives an opportunity for them to be weighed, measured and tagged, and have various samples such as hair, fat and teeth removed for later chemical analysis. [Described image] Figure 2 Scientists examine a drugged polar bear The amount of body fat on a bear indicates whether it has been eating well or is starving. But a chemical analysis of this body fat gives a...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...2 Why did you decide to become a student and what do you hope to gain from your studies? Think about this question for a few minutes and then note down your response. Discussion Have you recorded only one reason for why you became a student or are there several reasons? Have your reasons for studying changed since you became a student? What you want to gain from studying...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...2 An illustration of apparent magnitudes. Note that although stars of different magnitude are conventionally indicated as having different sizes, as they are here, in reality almost all stars appear to us as pinpoints of light. There are two reasons why different stars may have different apparent magnitudes: they may emit different amounts of light or they may be at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...2 Whose community? Timing: 45 minutes Read Akinyemi, A., Rembe, S., Shumba, J. and Adewumi, T. (2019) ‘Collaboration and mutual support as processes established by communities of practice to improve continuing professional teachers’ development in high schools’, Cogent Education, 6(1), p. 1685446. Focus on pages 7–16, from the start of Results to the end of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...2 The world’s population grew to 7 billion in 2011. Mr Ban highlighted that the world today is one of ‘terrible contradictions’ where there is plenty of food but 1 billion people go hungry; there are lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others; huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth; and billions spent on weapons to kill...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...2 and listen to the audio (click on the play button, or listen in separate player below Figure 2). You will notice several variations between what you hear and the manuscript text. Sassoon must have re-worked this handwritten text before the poem was published. The reading is taken from Siegfried Sassoon: Collected Poems 1908–1956 (Sassoon, 1961). [Figure 2] Figure 2...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs