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‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...public, political and cultural representations of working-class activism in opposition to industrial closure are dominated by the image of the militant male worker. Leaders like Jimmy Reid, Arthur Scargill and high-profile disputes by miners, shipyard workers, car workers, steel workers and others are synonymous with resistance to the process of deindustrialisation. Where...
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David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...public, but in terms of our industry it was huge, that kind of timescale, trying to do a programme over that timescale in dealing with the planet and environmental destruction that none of us had even considered at any length was very powerful for our industry. I don’t think anyone particularly watched it. Mixing natural history and the environment We did The Unnatural...
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Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...public.’ And that’s why other people look at the NHU output and say, ‘That’s a very good story, we could do that ourselves, it would be prohibitively expensive and there’s a risk involved in it.’ So therefore, there’s an easier… not an easier option, but basically it’s available, that’s why they come there. Generic landscapes, scene setters, a lot more...
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Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...public community of practice...This short course is designed for anyone leading change in their organisation at any level. It provides an introduction to core principles of business agility, with practical exercises, and is a base that can be built on with reference to the associated textbook and global public community of practice. This course is part of the Supporting...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...health and safety officer. I’ve been at Pathways for seven years, and before I started at Pathways I’d had my children, who are now 16 and 17, and I had no formal training at all to do with childcare. There was no provision for a mother and toddler group or anything in my area so I went and I opened one up, started it, didn’t need any qualifications back then, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...health visitor that we were going.’ Unfortunately, her asylum paperwork had not kept up with her and notification of her appeal hearing had been sent to the wrong address. It was rejected without her having a chance to speak for herself. ‘She fell into the gap that many dispersed and bewildered asylum seekers experience,’ says her current lawyer, Eileen Bye. In...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...health and social studies, including vocational A levels. Since then, I've been a full-time mother and homemaker. I've really enjoyed spending time with Akaash and Vanita, but I have always promised myself that I will get back into teaching when Vanita was old enough. My husband, Rohit, always thought this would be a good idea, although as a quantity surveyor he works...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...public exhibition held at the Louvre every year or two during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (named after the room in which it was held the salon carre). Works of art that had been commissioned by the state would also be exhibited in the Salon, so that the public could see the results of official patronage. Free entry attracted huge crowds and meant that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs