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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
Who are Europeans?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are Europeans?

...health, access to cultural facilities and so on). At the cultural level there are also important historical differences, although there are some indications that these may be, if not fading away, at least attenuating. For example, with respect to religion it is possible to distinguish three major historical religious groupings: Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...mental importance to your success in studying other courses. This course is about the very basic study skills of reading and taking notes. These are basic in the sense that they are the foundation for all successful study. But that does not mean they are simple. If you have no recent experience of reading academic texts you need to re-learn your reading skills. Reading...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...health and beauty retailer and Paul Outridge, the Head of Treasury at De La Rue, the world’s largest commercial security printer and paper maker. Managing company risks involves an active relationship with the banking sector... and here to represent that sector I'm pleased to have Hor Chan. First, can I turn to you Neil – what are the financial risks that arise in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...health. Education is a widely accepted humanitarian obligation and an internationally mandated human right. These claims are neither controversial nor new. (Cohen, Bloom & Malin, 2006 p. v) However, despite such claims, delivering education based on equality for all people is neither universal nor historically significant, and it continues to compete with a range of other...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs