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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...work as a remedy to all ills. The immediate and critical needs of the UK aerospace and automotive sectors, and the downstream foundation industries – such as steel – that support these sectors are manifest. They will drive innovation, R&D and good jobs, especially in the context of Brexit. It would not have been difficult to develop a narrative in today’s...
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...works and what it contains - This unit has been designed to help anyone with an interest in the history of Wales to find key information and to begin understanding the way that historians of Wales do their work. It is aimed both at those who are generally interested in the subject and may have a good knowledge of Welsh history already, and at those who are relatively new...
Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...worked as a General Practitioner while attending graduate engineering classes in Los Angeles. She was named an astronaut candidate in 1987, and flew her first flight as a science mission specialists on STS-47, Spacelab-J, in September 1992, logging 190 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds in space. In March 1993, Dr. Jemison resigned from NASA, thought she still resides in...
The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators
Nature & Environment

The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators

...work in one environment, stamina, strength or speed may be needed in another. [The image shows a small pack of cream white Arctic wolves howling together in a deserted landscape of rocky rubble and hard frosted ground. There are three adult wolves and two small cubs, with all of the adults howling with one of the two cubs. The other cub is leaning into it's parent wolf. ]...
Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?
Society, Politics & Law

Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?

...working with trans actors, transgender people might seem to be riding a wave into the heart of the mainstream. But, says Ray Fillar, until the media goes deeper than just jumping on the transwagon, we've still a long way to go...[Selfridges bags] Does Selfridges really have the agender agenda at the heart of their business - or are they just transwagon jumping? Nowadays,...
International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Society, Politics & Law

International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour

...work in the UK. Yet doctors and nurses from the EEA may no longer have the right to do so. Dr Parvati Raghuram looks at how the NHS has depended on foreign workers since its creation...[NHS leaflet 1948] NHS leaflet from 1948 The claim that the National Health Service (NHS) would get an additional £350m per week if the UK quit the EU was arguably one of the most...
“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...struggles before. But it also represented a challenge to how we see ‘women’s work’ and, in particular, to initiate a shift in our understanding of the impact of the key workers of early years’ education. ‘A special kinda strike’ [Picket line of nursery nurses dressed in beach attire]That the strike played an important role in changing views about who was fundamentally delivering early years education and child ......
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...works of beauty or other special significance’ and ‘Human creativity as distinguished from nature’. How far does this reflect your own views? Answers to the question ‘What is art?’ are not straightforward because images, objects or concepts can have very different effects on different people in different contexts and can be interpreted in many different ways....
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs