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Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...think about the next few years, make sure you’re planning ahead for the financial impact of future events and are prepared for pitfalls and surprises. Where you’d like to end up (Session 3). You’ll look ahead to your later life, pin down your ideal retirement lifestyle and make sure you’ve set a clear course towards it. Watch the video where Legal & General’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...system was code-named ‘Ultra’, and was one of the best-kept secrets of the Second World War. From a historian’s point of view, the exposure of Ultra has been a lesson in how cautious we must be in analysing historical evidence and drawing conclusions about what happened. A good example of this point concerns the hunt for the German battleship, the Bismarck, in the...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...thinking risks being short to medium term because the people and organisations involved are constantly changing. Traditional rivalries between marketing communications disciplines (such as media advertising and public relations), and compartmentalised thinking amongst both clients and their agencies, have acted as a barrier to a holistic approach to the consumer. Schultz,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...think about how to develop rapport, and allows you to plan for, and reflect on, your everyday interactions in order to build rapport effectively. It focuses on conversations that might be considered ‘difficult’, and encourages effective listening and effective diagnosis of interpersonal behaviour....Sure, I know how to talk to people!: Introduction - Good...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...think that human beings always have a choice. Existentialists tell us that we are free – but what do they mean? And, if we are all free, won't an individual’s freedom be limited by other people’s freedom? Sartre also says that freedom is not something we enjoy but rather a burden. Why should it be a burden? The answers to these questions spring out of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...think two questions that are crucial to this course and more generally to studying the Classical world, I would say. First, there is the question of what do we actually have left by way of evidence? But secondly, how do we get from what we have left to some sort of sense of what the Classical world has actually been like such a long time ago. So for instance, we have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...system from heating up without limit. The crucial difference is that much of the re-emitted radiation goes back down and is absorbed by the surface. It is this additional energy input - over and above the absorbed solar radiation - that keeps the Earth's GMST over 30 °C warmer than it otherwise would be. [Figure 7] Figure 7 Schematic representation of the globally...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...thinking (e.g. ‘technology/science will save us’), we can detach ourselves from the problem (e.g. ‘there’s nothing I can do about it’), we can blame others (e.g. ‘others that produce more pollution than me are the problem’) or we can immerse ourselves in the busyness of our everyday lives and not think about it. [Newspaper headlines about climate change]...
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