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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...social and environmental apocalypse will cause the collapse of existing infrastructure and telecommunications will be back to pencil and paper or something even more primitive. As many people have pointed out, it is hard to make predictions, especially about the future. Hamza Bendemra Research engineer, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National...
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Article 5 mins
The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...Social and Political Union and focused on campaigning for women’s rights. In 1911 she composed a suffragist anthem entitled The March of the Women, which she dedicated to Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928). Smythe was even prepared to go to prison to ensure that women were given the right to vote, serving two months in Holloway in 1912 for smashing a cabinet minister’s...
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Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...social mishaps, which escalate to the point of absurdity. All that human silliness has a social function. It's meant to make us cringe so hard we won't make similar mistakes in the real world. And no matter how anarchic they get, it all resolved happily at the end in that boring, old social mender, marriage. But worry not you singletons, some writers satirise their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...social and human components identify different types of stakeholders and apply techniques to elicit the main interactions of stakeholders with systems analyse issues of power and conflict between stakeholder groups in IT systems...Successful IT systems: 1 Success and failure in IT systems - What makes an IT system a success and what makes it a failure? We have...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...Social scientists are wary of using the term without due caution, as they are more often aware of the pitfalls that come with its ambiguity and contestability. Many residents of places such as Macedonia, Kosovo, the Palestinian territories, Cyprus, so-called ‘Padania’ in northern Italy, Catalonia, the western Sahara, Abkhazia, Aceh, Scotland and Quebec live with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...social structure, cultural norms and values, and climate? The discussions of Selvon’s novel in this course will offer some possible answers to this and other questions, through an emphasis on the themes of migration and memory...Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners: Leaving home - The issue of finding a ‘voice’ for the articulation of West Indian migrant experience has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...social occasion or some kind of ‘networking’ business event. What do we do? Mostly unconsciously we search around the room making judgements! We might not like to admit this intellectually, but at an unconscious level we look to see who looks safe or possibly threatening, or who might be attractive or otherwise, or who might be ‘like us’ in some way. We then...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...social security contributions in the new country (Osborne, 2022). So while it sounds great to be able to give your employees the flexibility to work remotely in some faraway exotic location, in practice it can be quite complicated and costly. What is the right environment for hybrid working? It is important that leaders take the time to see how their current policies...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs