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Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...motivations and preferences in relation to work. What are the constraints? There may be a range of factors that will affect your job path, identifying these will help you to plan actions. This activity is part of a course Succeed in the workplace, you can choose to complete just this activity or go through the course. The course also has an activity on ‘how well does my...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...et al., 1988) define the intrinsic value of a company as: ‘its economic value as a going concern, taking account of its characteristics, the nature of its business(es), and the investment environment’. Fundamental analysis is an important technique, widely used by people working in the financial services industry. While some personal investors carry out their own...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...et al., 2002). With the full reference listed at the end of the work, e.g. Jackson, N., Tadhunter, C. and Sparks, W.B. (2002) ‘Cynus A: stars, dust and cones’, Monthly Noticesof the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 301, no. 1, pp. 131–141...Developing good academic practice: 4.2.5 Social Sciences - The notion of ‘common knowledge’ draws us into difficult...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...motivated witch hunt. In the US and Britain, those on the political right seized upon the novel as a thinly veiled criticism of the ‘statism’ of the Labour government. This distressed Orwell. In July 1949, a month after the novel was published, he issued a statement making it clear that the novel was neither an attack on the Labour Party in Britain nor on democratic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...motivation for Billinghurst was her lifelong commitment to women’s causes, which started before her involvement with the suffragettes, and continued many years afterwards. It is also interesting to note the references to her sense of humour, courage and belief in reincarnation, all of which may have helped her to persevere. When reading a biographical account of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...motivation for this choice is important but is left largely implicit in this early groundbreaking paper. Many of the examples Grice gives of events with (non-natural) meaning are non-linguistic. Ringing the bell on a bus is a case in point. The existence of non-linguistic but meaningful acts leads Grice to the view that it is as acts that linguistic acts have meaning –...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...motivated concerns to dismantle fascist or semi-fascist legacies of over-centralisation were involved in the decentralisation in Spain (and to a lesser extent Portugal) in the 1970s and 1980s, with Italy having led the way by excising some of its authoritarian legacy in 1970. It created fifteen regions, implementing regional devolution which had been envisaged in its 1945...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...motivation to finish his work. His excessive amorous exertions, Vasari claims, are what brought about the fever that ultimately killed him. This hyper-sexual image of Raphael seems at odds with the gentle and graceful one described earlier in Vasari’s Life, and it may be that the sexually charged subjects of the Farnesina frescoes, exemplified by the nude figure of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs