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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...family might come together and watch something in one room, sometimes the kids will be up late catching up themselves in their own time. But I think people still want to feel connected by it and I think they still like finding something special, finding something exciting and finding it soon and then communicating it. And I think maybe the big error is that we have...
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Video 30 mins
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...Brexiters that their interest is best served by its programme could get a resounding victory. At the moment Brexiters are drawn toward the Conservatives, how long that remains to be the case as the implications of Britain's withdrawal become clear is to be seen. The only thing I am prepared to predict is that the two tribes will not merge into one big happy family....
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Article 10 mins
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...family- and carer-friendly policies that allow flexible working patterns (Collins et al., 2021), and additional training, support and resources. In the UK positive discrimination and in the USA affirmative action are considered ways to promote equity. In either case, preferential treatment is given to people from an under-represented group, for example to increase their...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...family therapy to international relations. The different traditions of systems thinking can be grouped together in different ways. Systems approaches can be grouped according to the emphasis given to the context or situation in which the approach was used, the practitioners or users of the approach, and the ideas or usefulness of the approach itself...Part 1:...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...family, and leave the public realm - the world of government and politics - to men. These structures had been defied by some actual women who, during the Revolution, sought to engage in political activity. Even though the women here are intervening in public affairs, they’re not defying Rousseau’s idea of proper feminity because they are doing so purely in defence of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...family relations in ways that many people would find unappealing or even destructive. The fundamental principle behind the UNCRC is stated in Article 3, which reads: In all actions concerning children … the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration (Unicef, no date) However, when drafting the Convention its authors were very careful not to set up...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...family was Jewish and her mother’s was Catholic, but she was brought up an atheist. In 1919 the family moved to Turin, where the Levi household became a meeting place for many intellectuals who opposed Mussolini. Natalia studied at the University of Turin. In 1938 she married the political activist Leone Ginzburg. The Ginzburgs spent some years in Abruzzo, where Leone...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...families sharing spaces so cramped people had to work on beds to complete their tasks. The pandemic served to ‘Lift the veil of ignorance’ (philosopher John Rawls, 1970, quoted in Gratton, 2022, p. 6) as leaders faced similar difficulties to their employees; this brought about a much deeper empathy very quickly, something that had, up to this point, been difficult to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs