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Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...become of them both. Her letters express anxiety about having to do domestic work. She writes: ‘I have never enjoyed housework, it is not in my nature; please try to find me somewhere to work with children’. Both had learned English in school; they thought they would be safe in England, and could probably find work; if not they would try America again. They married in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...student of RSAMD who has gone on to become a major figure on the Scottish music and broadcasting scene. She now lives in Lochaber where she and her husband run Watercolour Music Studios. A traditional music background and a classical training coupled with 15 years’ experience working with the BBC has established her as a major figure in the Scottish music scene, equally...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...student, despite declaring my Irish nationality. ‘Accra, Ghana’ appears to have overridden the ‘Irish’ in the ‘Nationality’ box. And then the simplicity of the correction, my Whiteness restored, the fee reduced. The wages of Whiteness (Du Bois, 1935) is a useful concept here, but no one’s life is simply black and white. [A postage stamp of Gold Coast...
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Video 30 mins
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...becomes-- everyone knows what I'm talking about. [MUSIC PLAYING] WOMAN: When was the last time we've ever seen an important movement be contributed by teenagers? [MUSIC PLAYING] MAN [NON ENGLISH SPEECH]: Graffiti it's not limited to only one thing. It's a lot broader, a lot more democratic let's say and even so, people still manage to criticise it. Art is different. If...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Why is the Conservative manifesto the mark of a brave Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the Conservative manifesto the mark of a brave Prime Minister?

...student visa requirements and the doubling of charges on firms employing migrant workers, may go some way towards retaining their support. Winning over new voters? These manifesto pledges don’t really show us a party which is trying to win the votes of the mainstream majority. Rather, it shows us Theresa May’s supreme confidence in leading her party. She’s not...
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...student’s spelling of the word “potato” to “potatoe”. This simple error became one of the lasting images of his career, and was interpreted not simply as a sign that he couldn’t spell one of the more common root vegetables, but that he was of impoverished intelligence generally. Transcript Then there was the furore over a mistake Gordon Brown made towards the...
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How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...students from New Delhi, which describes the use of Snapchat among India's millennials: Transcript Omar harnesses this popularity to address a huge problem: in 2014 alone, India witnessed 36,735 reported rapes, while many others that went unregistered. Incidents of rape have risen 9 percent since 2010, according to news reports. Here's what makes the whole experience...
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Video 5 mins
Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...student or minimum wage earner, alongside the busy commuter. Another is that there remains a significant swath of older people whose eschew Twitter and Snapchat, prefer the BBC to Vice and would still rather read their news on paper than on a phone. Especially if it’s cheap. Older people are poorly served by the news media in many ways, which is odd when you think about...
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