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What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...worlds, but it can change us psychologically as well. Transcript As you work your way through this course, you will have the chance to participate in both reading and writing activities and experience for yourself what happens to you when you read....What happens to you when you read?: Introduction - Reading as a form of entertainment has a long history. Not only does a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...World War, with a ‘Shadow Factory’ established at Hillington on the Southwestern outskirts of Glasgow. Work at this plant, to produce ‘Merlin’ aeroengines for RAF Spitfires and other warplanes, shadowed an established Rolls-Royce factory at Derby which, being further south and east, was more easily reached by the Luftwaffe. In the post-war period, at the East...
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Article 5 mins
Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...world that reflects our desires and anxieties back to us while also obscuring the complexities of a shifting global reality. The title refers to an idea coined to describe the last years of the Soviet Union. Here everyone knew that the ‘planned economy’ was failing but politicians, leaders and citizens all went along with the pretence of a functioning society. What...
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Article 10 mins
Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...World War II, Mizuki served as a conscript in the Japanese Imperial Army, and was stationed on New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea. His horrible experiences of war on the island (many of which he documented in a variety of books that are available in English translation), which included losing an arm and then being cared for by the local inhabitants of the island,...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...world, the New Union Flag transforms the traditional Union Jack from an archetype of uniformity into a dynamic and celebrational on-going performance of diversity. While this flag started as a reflection on the UK’s colonial legacy, its design is ever-changing to reflect the ongoing cultural diversity in the UK. An important disclaimer Please acknowledge that various...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
HR at the heart of the productivity shift
Money & Business

HR at the heart of the productivity shift

...world that never sleeps. In the long term this threat goes to the very core of modern HR efforts to manage productivity. The ethics of accounting can lead to a reality of growing unaccountability and possible subversion within organisations. Present is a top down blame game, where executives pass the proverbial 'hot potato' onto middle managers who do the same to the...
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Article 5 mins
Reading communities
Education & Development

Reading communities

...worlds Foster children’s autonomy as readers who can exercise discrimination within and beyond school Build new and more equal reading relationships with families and community members. In this film Dr Rachel Levy of the University of Sheffield draws on her own research to explore the barriers and motivations for shared reading in families. In this film Jon Biddle,...
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Systems explained by Peter Checkland
Money & Business

Systems explained by Peter Checkland

...to management problem solving which is now used and taught world-wide. Checkland, originally from Birmingham, studied chemistry at Oxford in the 1950's and worked as a technologist and then a manager for ICI fibres. But when he made the move from research to management he found that little existed in the way of training and preparation for his new role. Transcript...
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