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Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
Society, Politics & Law

Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats

...public sector housing blocks in Europe at the time. Within only a few years they came to be symbolic of the failures of that vision – and of the social engineering efforts of Glasgow’s city planners. The Red Road Flats soon became a by-word for urban decline, deprivation and hard-to-let unpopular council housing. In recent years it has been accorded a new symbolic...
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...health cases stress is more prevalent in public sector occupations. The HSE reports that stress due to workload pressures included meeting tight deadlines, too much responsibility and a lack of support...Week 8: Understanding stress and conflict: 1.1 Causes of stress - The exact causes of stress are often difficult to pin down. Someone might think that work is the root of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...publication of Paul Gilroy’s aptly named book, 'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack'. Writing, in September 2017, about flags, and the act of ‘flagging up’ or mapping out symbols that define our identities, home and belonging, I come to think, as Paul Gilroy did, that the assimilation of transnational diasporas and migrants is not a process of acculturation, but...
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When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...public support. The Prime Minister replied that 80 percent of the British public supported his position. "Then what about Pompidou's argument that public opinion demands it?" the President wondered. The Prime Minister asked if the President would be in a position to agree to such a conference in 1973. The President said we would have to look at it seriously for then....
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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...public in their enthusiasm to say that we shouldn't clone a human being, because we don't know that we are safe. We have told the public that cloned animals have this and that problem, but in reality, in most cases, like in cattle cloning, the problems that we are seeing, are not related to cloning. The abnormalities relate to the procedure of having an embryo growing in...
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Article 30 mins
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...health...Understanding ADHD: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define key terms in the field of ADHD describe the characteristics of ADHD and how they are used in diagnosis describe the patterns of prevalence of ADHD, including the reasons for disparities worldwide describe risk factors and brain changes associated with ADHD outline...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?
History & The Arts

How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?

...health began to deteriorate, but his legacy, both within Cuba and internationally, is hard to overestimate. This is the man who led a small band of guerrilla fighters to power in the late 1950s, outlasted nine US presidents and ended up at the centre of the most dangerous moment in the Cold War. He even holds the record for the longest speech at the United Nations. In...
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Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...Health that rising temperatures would bring increasingly dangerous weather extremes. They analysed 2,300 records of disaster events between 1981 and 2010, assumed that there would be no attempts to adapt or mitigate climate change, and then scaled up the possible casualties eight decades from now. By then, the present record-breaking temperatures in southern Europe would...
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