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Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...Social Sciences courses. [Nicole McLean]I first joined the railway in 2013 at the age of 18. I had successfully attained a hospitality steward job through an agency based in Inverness. Later that year, I became a permanent Scotrail staff member and was excited to remain part of the team I had come to value over the last few months. Having moved to Inverness from South...
Fake news in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Fake news in Wales

...Social… encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology". This is the mission statement for the new social media platform announced by Donald Trump in October 2021. Its name has raised a few eyebrows given the track record that its founder has when it comes to telling the ‘truth’ – or at least, what most...
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...work within the novel...This free course, Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, is designed to tell you something about Hardy's background, and to introduce you to the pleasures of reading a nineteenth-century novel. Why do we believe in fictional characters and care about what happens to them? You will discover some of the techniques that Hardy uses to...
Online training support for businesses
Money & Business

Online training support for businesses

...social learning platform offering free flexible, distance learning content to support upskilling in industry. This new, innovative business learning hub enhances learning and development opportunities for SMEs across Northern Ireland by giving access to best practice learning on entrepreneurial leadership across three core themes: Leadership and management;
Ethics in real life
History & The Arts

Ethics in real life

...with The Open University's Derek Matravers. Plagiarism and copyright law Nigel Warburton explores with the author, Maureen Duffy, the ethics of plagiarism and copyright law. Business ethics Derek Matravers talks to The Open University's Anya Shaefer about business ethics, comparing the profit maximisation view of business with the corporate social responsibility model....
Origins of The Cold War
History & The Arts

Origins of The Cold War

...politics of blame during The Cold War Has there been too much emphasis on the superpowers? Western European integration How did all the stakeholders reconcile their competing agenda’s? Domestic concerns vs Foreign policy How did domestic issues help to shape the cold war? The Cold War on a local level The impact of the Cold War from a social and cultural perspective....
How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...social media behaviour...[Donald Trump campaigns in Laconia] Another day, another tweet, another incident. This time Donald Trump, the prolific and seemingly indiscriminate tweeter who just happens to be leader of the free world has damaged diplomatic relations with Australia by raging against a refugee resettlement deal that had been struck in the dying days of the Obama...
Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right
Languages

Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right

...social media companies, businesses and advertisers compete to gain people’s attention in order to boost sales. They do this because otherwise their message or product gets lost in the overwhelming amount of information that circulates on the internet. [Three young women sitting down, all looking at one smart phone] Attention is important to our personal online...