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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...business. Just try searching Google for the CEO of Apple Computers and biotech firm Genentech founded Calico (est. 2013). It's a company backed by a billion dollars of investment which aims to ‘devise interventions that slow aging and counteract age‑related diseases.’ The millionaire English gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, established the charity which focuses on the...
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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...Tomlinson, Jim; Phillips, Jim; Wright, Valerie (2022) "De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001, and its broad implications", Business History, 64 (1), pp. 28–54. Wright, Valerie; Phillips, Jim; Tomlinson, Jim (2021) "Defending the right to work: the 1983 Timex workers' occupation in Dundee", Labour History Review, 86 (1), pp. 63–90....
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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...businesses (Lovejoy, 2010). Upon his death, Equiano’s estate was worth approximately £80,000, which was given to his surviving daughter Joanna Vassa (Lovejoy, 2020) Equiano settled his family in the Cambridgeshire village of Soham after he married local English woman Susannah Cullen of Scottish descent from Ely in 1792 (Downs, 2020). In April 1792 the Stamford Mercury...
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...business-woman. Her piano works became extremely popular, and she found a massive following for her compositions among amateur pianists. In the US, her music inspired so much passion that hundreds of Chaminade music clubs were founded. The English composer, conductor, and author Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) was a close contemporary of Chaminade. She wrote and published a...
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Working in teams Badge icon
Money & Business

Working in teams

...money and the interviews consume time. Recruiting the wrong person can do great harm, both to business performance and team morale. When the mistake is realised, the employee may leave, fail probation or be dismissed, potentially damaging their self-confidence and stalling their career progress. The entire cycle of advertisement and interview then has to be repeated, with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...money invested in public transport, making it more or less efficient, convenient and affordable to use our own decision to take public transport or use a car pool, perhaps because we are conscious of the environmental damage caused by car emissions. The amount of tax we pay on our income and the goods we purchase, and the amount and kinds of public services we get in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...Business and Law where leaders and managers can be supported in their continuing and professional development (CPD). Her experience spans several sectors and subject areas, including projects for government covering aspects of UK and international law and diplomacy. She brings extensive experience of the pedagogy of work-based learning and has designed corporate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...money-mediated exchanges but about solidarity-mediated exchanges. Political mobilisation needs the support of social relations but at the same time challenges it by addressing everybody: the rights that sex workers’ claim are not just for themselves, they are ultimately for everybody. Does this mean then that the difference between citizens and non-citizens becomes...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs