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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...
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Supporting South Asian young adult carers: A guide for social workers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting South Asian young adult carers: A guide for social workers

...work students to help them understand how they can support carers in transition, with a particular focus on South Asian young adult carers in England. South Asian young people’s caring roles are often invisible to services and may be unsupported. The SATTA study at The Open University (South Asian Young Adult Carers’ Transitions to Adulthood), funded by the NIHR, has...
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...succeeded neither as propaganda nor as a work of art. Click to see plate 30 Jacques-Louis David, Distribution of the Eagle Standards, 1810, 610 x 931 cm, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Photo: © RMN/ P.Willi Such interest and appeal as Napoleonic propaganda painting continues to have today depend on the extent to which it can be seen to transcend its original...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 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...
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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. ]...
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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,...
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