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Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...family’s farm and wants to develop more income by diversifying outside of traditional farming activities. Gwyneth is a keen cook and has had her hours reduced at the café where she works in town. To supplement her family income, she wants to sell her homemade jams, chutneys and preserves at farmers’ markets and food fairs. Julia, a Further Education student, lives...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...family or friends, planning an event with colleagues at work, responding to an emergency, working together to set a budget, participating in a meeting, to delivering a change in local or national government policy. Figure 1 Features commonly found in in successful schools. Mark Gardner of the National Governors Association identified that ‘building a successful...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...family, class, cultural, generational). Discussing key issues that in research and thinking about food, including how policies tackling obesity are framed, it draws across work from Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology to challenge the rhetoric of 'healthy choices' and consider why it's essential to go beyond the individual to understand systems and environments...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
How are drones keeping track of songbirds?
Nature & Environment

How are drones keeping track of songbirds?

...that encourages ornithologists to spend time out in the field getting to know their study species and their habitats,” says Wilson. “We need to be wary about relying too heavily on technology, because that reliance could erode natural history skills and reduce an emotional connection with birds and the environment.” Originally published by PLOS under CC-BY licence...
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Article 5 mins
Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned
Society, Politics & Law

Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned

...of the public. With an ethos of inclusivity and respect for diverse realms of economic expertise, the seminar series will bring together those working on current challenges across a broad range of research interests: Social Policy, Personal Finance, Innovation, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Health, Inequality and Employment, Philosophy and History of Economics....
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Video 5 mins
Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148
History & The Arts

Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148

...Colonel Luttrell’s qualifications to sit in the Commons—that the 296 suffrages (recorded for Luttrell) were preferable to the 1143 polled for Wilkes. As recorded by Joseph Grego in A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering In The Old Days, published in 1886 John Wilkes would go on to present the first petition to Parliament calling for reform, in 1776....
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Article 5 mins
The West of Ireland: Dimensions of distinctiveness
Scotland Colleges

The West of Ireland: Dimensions of distinctiveness

...history of emigration may all contribute to a less picturesque view of the West of Ireland, but they still do not say exactly where it is. To define and delimit the West of Ireland as a region means establishing criteria to convey the distinctiveness and coherence which have developed over time. Activity: Criteria for producing a map to show ‘the West of Ireland’ As...
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Article 5 mins
The Belfast linen industry
History & The Arts

The Belfast linen industry

...history...The linen trade played a pivotal role in the social and economic development of Belfast. The manufacture of linen was the catalyst that allowed it to grow from a town into the region's pre-eminent city. It grew most rapidly during the 1860s – by the end of the 19th century Belfast was the linen capital of the world. [Spinning wheel, spinning linen.] During the...
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Article 10 mins