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Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers
Education & Development

Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers

...sustainable employment should they progress permanently into an organisation from their existing Kickstart placement or need support for their next job or learning opportunity. [Lady working by a window] Each course comes with a statement of participation and a digital badge, allowing learners and employers to record and recognise their achievements as they progress...
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I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 3
Nature & Environment

I Bought A Rainforest - Episode 3

...can't refuse. It turns out that the answer had been staring him in the face the whole time. Together, Charlie and Elias embark on a new joint project; one that sees them working together rather than battling one another, planting trees, and heading towards a sustainable future for this one patch of precious rainforest. Clip: The forest on fire Clip: Charlie's vision...
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Environment: habitat and conservation
Nature & Environment

Environment: habitat and conservation

...sustainable forms of development along the River Severn. This material forms part of the course U216 Environment... Environment: habitat and conservation A short introduction to this album. Blackwater: A Threatened Habitat Change on the Blackwater Estuary. As the sea level rises this unique landscape and its valuable biodiversity face destruction. Blackwater: Coastal...
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Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?
History & The Arts

Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?

...sustained the late war [The War of 1812, which had endedthe the January 1815 Battle of New Orleans and the Treaty of Ghent ] has been, within these few months, a s much on the alert as ever to propagate the vilest calumnies against the conduct and intentions of Great Britain. Our readers must remember that this country was placed by the intrigues of a party in the United...
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What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and commitment to international aid programmes. Secondly, the Brexit and Trump victories might mean a retreat to nationalism as a justification for policies based on economic and military power and not on co-operation for justice and development. It cannot be denied that liberal cosmopolitanism supported economic conditions whereby the...
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Solving the care crisis with public investment
Society, Politics & Law

Solving the care crisis with public investment

...sustaining through its job creation and employee mobilisation. Solving the care crisis is part of the solution to – and not a distraction from – other global challenges of poverty, inequality and environmental sustainability. Learning outcomes Watch the trailer below for the seminar which took place on 30 November 2021: Transcript After exploring the seminar material,...
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Introduction to the Amazon System
Nature & Environment

Introduction to the Amazon System

...sustains and enhances the Amazon’s ecology. The Amazon’s natural resources The Amazon is the location of vast natural resources: from mineral ores (iron, aluminium, manganese, uranium, copper, gypsum, nickel and gold), fossil fuel reserves (petroleum, gas and lignite), renewable energy potential (through hydroelectric dams), timber and agricultural land. Minerals,...
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Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Nature & Environment

Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26

...Sustainable economies? Global finance is now starting to align in a way that we have never seen before. Public and private bonds, investments, pensions and insurance industries have a careful eye not just on divestment from fossil fuels but on investment in those technologies that will create the sustainable economies we all want to see. Mark Carney is absolutely right to...
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