Links to guides to writing in 10 different discipline areas: architecture, arts, business, education, engineering, IT, law, medicine, pharmaceuticals and science.

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Over 2,000 entries providing explanations of terms and abbreviations used in the contemporary German press, and gives information about institutions and personalities in German public life.

China Central Television (abbreviated as CCTV) is the predominant state television broadcaster in the People's Republic of China. CCTV has a network of 50 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers. Most of its programmes are a mixture of news, documentary, social education, comedy, entertainment, and drama, the majority of which consists of Chinese soap operas and entertainment.

For news on various topics including: business, technology, law, scince and space, travel, education and politics.

The Confucius Institute is a non-profit public educational organization affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, whose aim is to promote Chinese language and culture, support local Chinese teaching internationally, and facilitate cultural exchanges.

France 5 is a public television network in France, part of the France Télévisions group. Principally featuring educational programming, the channel's motto is 'la chaîne de la connaissance et du savoir' (the knowledge network).

Educational magazine with detailed reports accompanied by professional photography (similar to National Geographic). Focuses on travelling, geography and nature. A great way to build both formal and informal scientific vocabulary and travelling phrases.

Centre/right weekly magazine on current affairs and culture.

The Mandarin Daily is a Taiwanese newspaper promoting Mandarin education. Mandarin Daily News is dedicated to cultural and educational journalism, focusing on topics such as lifestyle, youth, family, children's news, and children's and young people's classrooms.

NHK or 'Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai' is Japan's public broadcasting organisation, publicly owned and funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestrial television services (NHK General TV and NHK Educational TV), two satellite television services (NHK BS-1 and NHK BS Premium, and three radio networks (NHK Radio 1, NHK Radio 2, and NHK FM). NHK also provides an international broadcasting service, known as NHK World.

Nagoya University of Commerce & Business (abbreviated as NUCB) is a Japanese private university located in Nisshin, Aichi within the Tokai region of Japan. Reflecting the needs of improved English undergraduate education in Japan, NUCB will be one of only 5 universities to offer an English track starting from April 2019 under the Faculty of International Studies, Global Business Studies.

High Education databases. Direct access to the press bases and bibliographic and documentary information on higher education in Spanish

SBS Radio is a service provided by the Special Broadcasting Service to 'inform, educate and entertain Australians, especially those of non-English-speaking backgrounds'. SBS Radio originally began as two stations based in Melbourne and Sydney, set up to provide pre-recorded information about the then-new Medibank health care system in languages other than English. Follow this link to access SBS Radio in Mandarin.

Online resources developed by Barbara Kuczun Nelson at Colby College. The multimedia and culture- based visuals make this a very versatile and engaging educational tool.

The complex issues we face today require a key set of problem-solving skills. How can schools best prepare students to be ready to take on these challenges? How can they help ensure students have the "deeper learning" skills of critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and metacognition, as well as have the content knowledge they need? Presented by Marc Chun, Education Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation.

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

TV Asahi began life as an educational television channel. By the 1970s TV Asahi had become a general-purpose television station, and aired a variety of shows including anime and foreign movies. TV Asahi currently airs a range of sports, news, children and teens, and variety programmes.