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When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...refugees poured across the border into India, while a Bangla Desh government-in-exile formed in Calcutta. A few days before Heath and Nixon met, Bangladesh, with the support of India, had forced Pakistan to surrender. The country declared indepenedence - but would the world recognise the claim? After a break, the conversation resumed on the India/Pakistan problem. The...
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Article 15 mins
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...refugee crisis – ‘The idealists of Lesbos: volunteers at the heart of the refugee crisis’, accompanied by a picture of volunteers apparently rescuing a child from the sea (Guardian, 15 April 2016). Or this line from later in the same report: ‘At no other time in modern history have NGOs or individuals stepped in to make up for the limited resources of a near...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...refugees, for example by hosting refugees in their homes, and who want to bring what they have found out – their knowledge and experience – to a space where they can engage with like-minded others and can find and provide mutual support and advice. The course has been written by and developed with an Ukrainian academic with extensive experience of teaching Ukrainian....
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...asylum, human rights. It came as quite a surprise to me when I qualified, to find out that I was the first-ever Afghan female to qualify. It wasn't something that I set out to do. It just happened. That wasn't the goal or the objective. Being in my position, I think, A: I realise how much more we have to do for inclusion and diversity, just generally along the bar. But...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...refugee children, may experience such significant cultural shifts and transitions...Listening to young children: supporting transition: 1.1 Listening to multiple perspectives - The sociocultural thinker Barbara Rogoff (2003) maintains that any child makes an active contribution to the environment or social community of which they are a part. Adults learn from them as much...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...seekers allowance (JSA) for six months have been required to join the New Deal programme. Following a ‘Gateway’ period of intensive counselling, advice and job search guidance with a Personal Adviser, clients choose between a job with a training component (subsidised placement with an employer, the Environmental Task Force or a community project), and full-time...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...refugees in Turkey making clothes for UK shops’ (BBC News), which implicated the supply chains of Marks and Spencer and ASOS. In most instances, the above organisations did not seek out suppliers that were maintaining these deplorable labour practices, yet for a variety of reasons they ended up in the same supply chain. Having a thorough understanding of this...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...asylums’. I mean it would be absurd to deny the splendour and beauty of the natural world to the audience that we’re dealing with. The world is beautiful. That’s as big a truth as the fact that the earth is also in danger. So you have to cover those things and to say that you have always to do it in the same programme, is I think also limiting, not to say absurd,...
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