KS3/4 Modern Foreign Languages - Pupil as Teacher
This resource is a 15 minute Teachers TV programme filmed in 2006 in Holyhead School, in which year 9 pupils deliver a module of 6 introductory French lessons to Year 6 pupils from a local feeder primary school.
Report on the 1o Congrès Internacional Noves Tendències en la formació Permanent del Profesorat (
By the start of this largely Castillian language conference, 612 people had registered and there were almost 200 papers, including oral and poster presentations. The participants included a Minister of Education, representatives of local and regional authorities, teacher educators and researchers. They came from many European countries and virtually all Latin American countries.
Reforming and developing the school workforce
This report from Ofsted evaluates the reform of the workforce in schools. It is based on inspections of 51 primary schools, three special schools and 45 secondary schools, carried out between September 2005 and March 2007. It is supplemented by visits to seven local authorities. They claim there has been ‘a revolutionary shift in workforce culture, with clear benefits for many schools,’ p5.
Children in Need in England: Results of a survey of activity and expenditure (2005)
This report, published by the then Department for Education and Skills (DfES), gives the analytical results of a survey of activity and expenditure by local authority social services’ children and families teams completed for a survey week in February 2005. It statistically analyses the responses of the local authority teams in relation to Children in Need.
Audit Commission: Special Educational Needs A Mainstream Issue (2002)
One in five children - a total of 1.9 million - in England and Wales are considered by their school to have Special Educational Needs (SEN). Despite significant numbers involved, they have remained low profile in education policymaking and public awareness. National targets and performance tables fail to reflect schools' work with them and a lack of systematic monitoring by schools and local education authorities (LEA) mean that poor practice may go unchallenged.
Continuing Professional Development - the National CPD Database
The TDA national database of continuing professional development (CPD) is designed "to promote high quality CPD courses for all school staff". The pilot database is a free resource which can be used in two ways, either as a search for information on provision, or as a platform on which providers can register and then upload the opportunities they offer.
Local knowledge is all
Kola Karim, CEO of Shoreline, has nurtured many companies to success. He now employs 5,000 people of different nationalities and says his local knowledge of Nigeria and Africa is the key to his successful business innovation.
Learning outcomes
The search for sustainable energy will dominate the twenty-first century. This unit provides an introductory overview of the present energy systems and takes a brief look at where the world may find energy in the future – cleaner use of fossil fuels or renewable energy sources?
Introduction
This unit enables you to hear about some of the participants in the Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS). These are associations of people who make offers of goods and services to and from each other. What is on offer and the requests people make are listed in local directories.
25. Programming Abstractions Lecture 25
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Champions of Participation Reunion
On 24 January, local government leaders shared experiences of democracy with international counterparts presenting to Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.This video is a snapshot of the day.For more information visit: www.ids.ac.uk/go/about-ids/news-and-commentary/january-2008-news/champions-of-participation-review-event
Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia
On 21 June 2007 Prime Minister John Howard and Minister for
Indigenous Affairs Mal Brough declared a ‘national emergency’ in
relation to child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory. In an
unprecedented set of actions, the Commonwealth has taken direct control
of communities, overriding the authority of both the NT Government and
local community organisations in the name of creating safe and healthy
environments for children.
In this public lecture, Dr Hinkson,
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2.1 The individual: an average day
Ever wondered how a computer processes data into information? This unit will help you to understand the distinction between the two and examines how a computer-based society impacts on daily life. You will learn what computers can do with data to produce information and how computers can be used to work with data and search for it, control machines, and support commercial operations.
When Local and Global Justice Meet
Dr Phil Clark gives his talk entitled; 'When local and global justice meet: Field Findings from Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo'. Part of the 2009 Taking Stock of Transitional Justice conference
Getting about
This unit helps you to acquire the basic language to find your way around a French town. You will learn how to understand and give directions, ask about accommodation, book a hotel room at the tourist information office and get information about what to see and do in the local area. You will visit some museums in Avignon and buy a film for your camera. This unit also deals with telling the time and making liaisons in speech. By the end of the unit, you will feel more confident understanding and
Une chambre d'hôtel
This unit helps you to acquire the basic language to find your way around a French town. You will learn how to understand and give directions, ask about accommodation, book a hotel room at the tourist information office and get information about what to see and do in the local area. You will visit some museums in Avignon and buy a film for your camera. This unit also deals with telling the time and making liaisons in speech. By the end of the unit, you will feel more confident understanding and
4 Audio activity
This unit enables you to hear about some of the participants in the Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS). These are associations of people who make offers of goods and services to and from each other. What is on offer and the requests people make are listed in local directories.
1 LETS: A community development
This unit enables you to hear about some of the participants in the Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS). These are associations of people who make offers of goods and services to and from each other. What is on offer and the requests people make are listed in local directories.
Nick Perkins speaking at the conference 'Globalising Development Studies'
This clip is from a discussion event in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which is part of a project being coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies in the UK and funded by the Ford Foundation, entitled ‘Globalising Development Studies’. The project aims to investigate the barriers that prevent local and alternative voices being heard in global development debates, drawing on examples of ‘counter practice’ and innovation in development to see how these can inform international
2008 K R Narayanan Oration Why Environmentalism Needs Equity
"Why Environmentalism Needs Equity: Learning from the environmentalism of the poor to build our common future". Ms Sunita Narain, Director of the Centre for Science & Environment; Director of the Society for Environmental Communications; and publisher of the fortnightly magazine 'Down to Earth', has been with the Centre from 1982 and has worked hard at analysing and studying the relationship between environment and development, and at creating public consciousness about the need for sus
