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Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...health and well-being. Tackling one of these issues will not solve the challenge of high crime rates and it is questionable whether it will ever be solved in terms of a society achieving a zero crime rate. Grint says these challenges need to be addressed collaboratively. He makes the point that, in business, people often want leaders who quickly come to a decision about a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...mentality, and that means that when it comes to the bigger issues we’re not really equipped to deal with them. We’re more concerned with what’s going to happen next week than we are about what’s going to happen next century, and I’m afraid that it’s very difficult to get people to worry about what happens next century. What was your contribution to natural...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...mental or physical strain that painting entails. Instead, his face is a vision of serenity, as if Raphael has translated his own mirrored image into the image of Christ when it was transferred – miraculously and without artistic intervention – onto Veronica’s veil. The artist is poised and the aristocratic gentleman is wearing refined clothes. The sense of idealism...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...health, could not even make his speech of thanks to Hadrian for his adoption in the Senate. Finally, having taken too copious a dose of medicine, his condition began to worsen and he died in his sleep – on the very Kalends of January [1 January a.d. 138]; hence mourning was prohibited by Hadrian on account of the vow-taking. [p. 84] 24. Aelius Verus Caesar being dead,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...health of the industry. There is a lot of investment in film production in the UK, but a lot of it is coming from outside the UK, so as studios coming in making films like Star Wars or The Avengers here. There is a benefit, quite a significant benefit, of that activity to people who are working outside the studio system, because there's a knock-on effect for investment in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...mentality to the sport where she argues, players represent their nations for the love of the game, which is well received by fans. This is in contrast to what she claims is the more mercenary perception of male footballers and fewer nationalistic ties by women fans during women’s World Cups, i.e., sometimes fans follow an individual or nation other than their own....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...health deteriorated, and on 28 March she drowned herself in the river Ouse near her home. Between the Acts has a lightness of touch in spite of Woolf’s state of mind as she finished it, and the way it anticipates war. It is a work of intricate patterning which demands careful, close reading; but such are the repetitions, rhymes and rhythms of the prose, that even less...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...health, especially in terms of its solvency. They like to see healthy amounts of cash, and that there are not overdrafts or large loans. Customers (current and potential) Customers need to know whether a business will be able to continue supplying them with goods/services in the future, especially if they deal with a business regularly or significant sums of money are...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs