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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...system and families’ expectations In recent years, the shifting landscape of home education (Jolly and Matthews, 2020), has witnessed a notable increase in the number of ‘accidental home educators’ (English, 2021), warranting additional attention. Many families are opting for home education not for a deliberate choice, but as the ‘last resort option’, especially...
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How do children learn the concept of race?
Education & Development

How do children learn the concept of race?

...thinking about their identity from their experiences with relevant others, co-constructing their understanding of the world through the lived experiences of those around them. Studies have found that white children learn early to view their lives as neutral, average, and ideal, the default position. Examples exist in the media, where it is still uncommon to see products...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...think that Life on Earth, Trials of Life, those early series in the late seventies and early eighties, they actually linked, if you like, a great communicator with the natural world; for once you saw ants crawling up Attenborough’s legs, you had a sense of how big things were, how wondrous things were. And they were very informative for me and, I think, actually for the...
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Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...Systemic Functional Linguistics or SFL – and shows how this deeper understanding can be applied to make everyday communication more effective. Halliday’s functional approach to the study of grammar is useful because it can enable us to better understand how written texts and spoken language work and how they relate to the context in which they are generated. In turn,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...systems describe the difference between direct and external modulation of a laser describe the difference in structure and performance of step-index multimode, graded-index multimode and single-mode optical fibres draw up a power budget for an optical-fibre communication link and use it to estimate the maximum link distance...Digital communications: 1.1 Uses of optical...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...think of crime, we often imagine individuals acting alone, but did you know some of the most serious offences take place within businesses and organisations that appear legitimate? Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour refer to illegal actions or serious misconduct carried out by people within companies, often hidden behind complex systems and professional reputations....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...think to keep them working well.” Martin leads a major research project aimed at understanding transitions through boom, bust and austerity for UK cities, and the lessons that can be learned from the past 50 years of economic history that might help cities prepare for the decades ahead. It will be the largest ever analysis of the post-industrial fortunes of the UK’s...
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Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...think of what is absent, unreal or even absurd, and so it appears to grant us almost unlimited conceptual powers. Yet it also seems to inform our perception of what is present and real and everyday, and so permeates the most basic levels of our daily lives. In this course, we will be concerned with some of the different ways in which the imagination is talked of and...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs