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Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...world. Since September 2015, Assad’s fate has been tied even closer to Russian policy planning, and has forced the West to talk to Russia as a “Great Power”, one considered as much a shaper of the rules of international politics as the US. [Vladimir Putin] Vladimir Putin currently backs the the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad Iran Edward Wastnidge, The Open...
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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all matters of discovery and...
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...World War finally, undeniably, exposed the horrific consequences and intrinsic violence of racism to European societies and sensibilities. Nevertheless, Aimé Césaire condemned white Europeans’ complicity in the rise of Nazism as ‘they tolerated Nazism before it was inflicted on them…because, until then, it had only been applied to non-European peoples’...
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Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...world where the history of technological innovation and change (and its organisational equivalent) has been nothing short of remarkable. Indeed, it has long been recognised that these two forms of innovation sit at the core of capitalism and largely account for the ‘success’ of capitalist societies over other forms of economic and social relations (Harvey, 2010)....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...world which we and all living things inhabit, interact in and share. The question is, what exactly do we mean by natural?...Working with our environment: an introduction: 2.2 We are part of nature - Take a few minutes to look around at your surroundings before you read on. What do you see? Obviously this depends on where you are at the moment: at home, at work, or perhaps...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...World War and the formation of government welfare services, children’s mental health was not recognised as the significant issue it is today. However, some children will have experienced mental health problems, even if these were left undiagnosed, and you will be examining some of the reasons why this might have happened. You will look at a news account about...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...world, you will see above the ark something representing the 10 commandments. There are actually 7 chandeliers in the synagogue and they represent the seven days of the week. There’s a larger one in the centre, which represents the Sabbath. And actually, there’s one other numerical thing in the synagogue and that’s the number of columns which support the ladies’...
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Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...world’s most brilliant platform so we’re feeling, we’re not, we’re not feeling smug but it is a, it’s a, it’s a great starting point. I think we’re facing in two directions at the same time. I mean, as a society, as consumers, as a culture, and the BBC and Radio 4 is part of that, is there’s this appetite for the enormously long boxset: ooh let’s sit...
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