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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...public pressure)? What practices does an innovative organisation engage in with respect to environmental management? Systems ideas are used to explore and develop critical perspectives on innovation in relation to environmental management by organisations. A systems approach raises the question of perspective: who decides what is innovation, what boundary judgements are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...publicized the health-giving properties of bathing in, and drinking, sea water in his A Dissertation: Concerning the Use of Sea Water in Diseases of the Glands, etc . (1752). Sea water taken one way or another, according to Russell, would cure almost any disease, including ‘fluxions of redundant humours’, rheumatism, madness, consumption, impotence, rabies and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...health, despite experiencing adversity.’ Their review also identified ‘the dynamic nature of resilience throughout the lifespan; and the interaction of resilience in different ways with major domains of life function’. This perspective becomes very relevant when starting to look at that major function of life – your career. Resilience is a characteristic that we...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...publics (free dances open to everybody). In this section a variety of people explain how they celebrate Bastille Day and what it means to them. Vitrine de confiseur décorée pour le quatorze juillet...Intermediate French: 14 July: 1.1 Les avis sont partagés - What exactly does the average French person celebrate on Bastille Day? As you will see, opinions can differ...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...health services and by local authorities is known as ‘public service’ translation. Other prominent forms of translation include localisation, videogame translation, subtitling, dubbing and audio description. Many aspiring translators are attracted by the idea of literary translation of fiction, theatre or poetry. This is an area in which it is difficult to make a...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...difficult for an inner circle to seal itself off from wider opinion. Alternatively, being on the campaign trail may be an opportunity for the general public to remind their prospective MPs that there are many shades of opinion between Hard Brexit and Hard Remain, and that no one party that has all the ideas for representing British interest in future Brexit negotiations....
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Article 10 mins
How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...in ‘intermediality’ with the Modernists, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Katherine Mansfield, too. She spoke, then, for many of her contemporaries when she wrote in a letter of 1899 that music, rather than literature, seemed to her the ‘nearest to truth’. This article originally appeared in the Public Domain Review under a CC-BY-SA licence...
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Article 10 mins
What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?
Money & Business

What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?

...publicized, everyone from Wall Street to Main Street who cares about interest rates would be able to predict how the Fed is going to react under such a rules-based approach. The Taylor rule While Quarles has not specifically referred to which rule he would favor, a frequently cited one is called the “Taylor rule.” It is named after Stanford economist John B. Taylor,...
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Article 5 mins