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Volunteering in the community
Education & Development

Volunteering in the community

...working in, and serving, their communities for the common good. Emily - Magistrate [Emily] “The more people in the community are represented, the better decisions are made.” Before becoming a magistrate, Emily had never been a volunteer, but was looking for an opportunity to do something meaningful in her community, as well as something that would be challenging and...
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...work, and how company law has developed, it is useful to start off by looking at the different ways in which a business can be run,and how forms of business organisations other than companies work. This will give us a background against which to place the study of company law and is why we will be concentrating on how sole traders and partnerships run their businesses....
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...social sciences will debate the theoretical aspects of a range of topics. Whether you are studying humanities, social sciences, science or technology, you will need to judge whether a text is an appropriate and reliable source. Some texts will be more factual than others and some will attempt to influence your opinions. The purpose of the questions you ask in this course...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Reading and child development: The Our Story app: Introduction
Education & Development

Reading and child development: The Our Story app: Introduction

...social context. But first, here's a brief description of what the app is and does - and why. Transcript We're sorry, but for the moment this app is only available for Apple devices. Our Story is an app designed so that you and your child can have fun and at the same time can build up skills which will provide a foundation for starting to read. The special feature of Our...
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...work in the industry. ...Jeremy Howe, Commissioning Editor, BBC Drama and Fiction on Radio 4 Jeremy talks rules, the advantages of radio drama and how to sustain your career as a writer. Transcript I’m Jeremy Howe. I’m the Commissioning Editor for Drama and Fiction on Radio 4. That means, as Commissioning Editor for Drama and Fiction, I commission shedloads of drama...
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...social and cultural diversity of fifteenth-century Venice and how they affected the city’s art. In particular it focuses on Venice’s relations with the East and its several manifestations, the legacy of Orthodox Christian Byzantium, and the contemporary Islamic societies of the Ottomans and Mamluks. Studying Venice and its art thus offers a challenge to the...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...work of others. (Handy, 1992) There are a number of themes of leadership running through these definitions, including: having a vision, direction and purpose developing and establishing a common goal working with change influencing others giving meaning to others. On reading these definitions, you might have noticed something very important: none make any mention of rank,...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...work that way for you? EMMA DARWIN: I’m equally fascinated and exasperated. I mean John Gardner in The Art of Fiction talks about how it’s… we have to get our reader to agree to forget that this stuff never happened in a novel, that’s the contract, and their side of the contract is that they will set aside their underlying knowledge that this is made up. And in...