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Why do England fail in international football competitions?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do England fail in international football competitions?

...think the key point here is to not blame the FA in an individualised way, blaming their secretaries, and the emergence of the Football League in ’88 was a key point, why? Because it demonstrated the power of the professional football clubs at that point under the Football League and essentially created decentralised fragmentary structure and process for English football...
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Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...think of a house being heated solely by some form of heating system, in practice it is likely to be warmed by energy from three sources: the heating system ‘free heat’ gains − from occupants, lights, appliances and from hot water use passive solar gains from solar energy penetrating the windows. In a really low-energy house design, free heat and solar gains may...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...thinking. Psychologists use different psychological theories to inform the content of each psychometric test plus statistical techniques to demonstrate the test’s validity (measures what it intends to measure) and reliability (produces consistent results over time, individuals and situations), and so these can take years to develop. Employers should then choose relevant...
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Article 10 mins
How to become an ethical researcher
Education & Development

How to become an ethical researcher

...think about effective informed consent and assent and what do we mean? ...Effective informed consent and assent is at the heart of being an ethical researcher. Being an ethical researcher is about doing ‘good’ research in the ‘right’ way. Researchers often think about what ‘good’ research is from their own researcher point of view. But they don't think about...
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Article 5 mins
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...think, but then I don’t think that’s in the least remarkable, I don’t know any four-year-old who’s not interested in the natural world, I truly don’t. I think that every child starts with a fascination of the world, whether it’s watching tadpoles change into frogs or splitting a rock and seeing a fossil inside or listening to birds, so I can’t say more than...
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...think about what can be discovered in research literature about different practices and about different benefits to young children. To begin with, take a few minutes to listen to the following audio in which Joanne Josephidou, Session 1 author, introduces the content. JOANNE JOSEPHIDOU: Approximately, 385,000 babies are born every single day. Each will have their own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Night sky puts on a meteor shower to celebrate Rosetta’s closest approach to the sun
Science, Maths & Technology

Night sky puts on a meteor shower to celebrate Rosetta’s closest approach to the sun

...system. It was last at perihelion (its closest approach to the sun) in 1995. Each time the comet comes to the inner solar system, it sheds dust. Over time, this debris has built up, and is smeared out along the entire track of the orbit. Once a year, in August, the Earth’s orbit crosses that of comet Swift-Tuttle, and dust from the comet is captured. If you record a...
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Chemical vapour deposition (CVD)
Science, Maths & Technology

Chemical vapour deposition (CVD)

...system [Images to demonstrate 'Chemical Vapour deposition (CVD)' - see article ] [Diagram showing the Cold Wall System] Hot wall system [Images to demonstrate 'Chemical Vapour deposition (CVD)' - see article ] Manufacture: A “high” temperature process. Cheaper, more suitable for mass-production than PVD (Physical vapour deposition), needing no special attachments,...
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