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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...institute takes or how much funding is available to cover the cost of a particular program. From a linguistic perspective, there are two problems with attempting to put a figure on how long it takes to learn a language: one is related to what is meant by ‘fluency’ and the other to learner variables. Assessing the outcome of language learning ‘Fluency’ is often...
Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...institutional life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Jefferess, D. (2012). The “Me to We” social enterprise: Global education as lifestyle brand. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, 6(1), 18-30. Jimmy, E., Andreotti, V., & Stein, S. (2019). Towards braiding. Musagetes Foundation. Shotwell, A. (2016). Against purity: Living ethically in compromised times....
What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...Institute for Health and Care Research. Award ID: NIHR205625. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. Study authors Boyle, G., Wallace, L., Islam, Z. and Sarwer, A. (In progress) ‘Mera future ko kya? (What about my future): A qualitative, multi-methods study and linked feasibility...
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...et al., 2019). Despite the use of multiple terms to describe resilience, there is consensus among researchers that resilience is best understood when examined in a particular context as models of resilience developed in other domains, such as business, might not be transferable, for example to sport (Wagstaff et al., 2017). In simple terms, resilience is ‘the ability to...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...et al., 2017, p. 76): business models as attributes of real firms having a direct real impact on business operations business models as cognitive/linguistic schema business models as conceptual representations/descriptions of how an organisation functions. You will look at each of these in more detail in the following sections...Business models in strategic management:...
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...et al 2018): people don’t relate to each other anymore as members of the same community, but instead called upon to become either border guard or suspect of being an undocumented migrant. The hostile environment policy has come under public criticism in the wake of the scandal surrounding the Windrush Generation of British citizens and migrants from the Caribbean who...
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...et cetera. So, if we look at work experience, it can be anything. It could be work experience in a hospital, which is a traditional way that medical students come into medical school but it’s important to remember that there are some areas of the country without a district general hospital, for example, Powys in Wales, and those students making an application to medical...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors
Science, Maths & Technology

Ageing well by connecting and learning about nature outdoors

...et al. (2023), evaluated the engagement of the public in nature-based citizen science projects. Nature-based citizen science is an activity in which people collect high-quality data for scientific use and environmental monitoring. Here Pocock and team tested people’s exposure to nature with both observation as well as citizen science, and confirmed that active...