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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...thinking of drama in a more general sense, we might be avid watchers of TV soaps or films. But, as a student of literature, you are sitting at home with a book open in front of you. It contains the text of a play. What, then, are you to make of the words on the page before you? If the script you were examining was intended for a film or a TV play it would look different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...system is. It will download it. And you can see how the colour is starting to show when the file is being downloaded. If you can see at the bottom of the screen also, you will see English, but once you click on that-- that has been installed now, so I can just close that window. And at the bottom of my screen, I have a Word document open. I see English, if I click on...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...system at all the depots of a supermarket chain. Answer a.This involves a set of routine tasks that the organisation must be equipped to perform; hence it would be carried out by an operational team. b.This is likely to involve a project team structure. Inputs to formulating the strategy would be needed from various areas, plus professional and technical inputs. c.Inputs...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...system in the UK often requires scientists to focus on core science subjects at the expense of learning about the social and ethical implications of their work. How then does a modern scientist begin to engage with these important issues? One solution is to provide opportunities for practising scientists to recognise social and ethical aspects of their work, and to...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Film: Creative or Cultural?
Money & Business

Film: Creative or Cultural?

...think creatively, to realise creativity is not an add-on but an essential ingredient for success”. (Chris Smith, Foreword, DCMS 2001, p. 3). This definition of creative industries is based on creativity and intellectual property. The dilemma is that, while the cultural industries can be defined as those that generate symbolic meaning, (as we have seen above), official...
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Article 5 mins
Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?

...find a charismatic successor. If Trump stumbles enough to reveal a weakness, and his supporters are willing to see it, this particular anti-establishment movement could disappear and more quickly than one might think. Unless, of course, they find someone who can step into Trump’s shoes. This article was originally published by Sociological Images under a CC-BY licence...
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Article 5 mins
Why do we have a two minutes’ silence on 11th November?
History & The Arts

Why do we have a two minutes’ silence on 11th November?

...thinking of those – the living and the dead – who had pledged and given themselves for all that we believe in.” It seemed an ideal way to honour the dead, console the bereaved and recognise the sacrifices of servicemen and women. However, three minutes was deemed too long and on November 7 the plans for a two minute silence, to mark the armistice, were officially...
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Article 10 mins
Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?
Money & Business

Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?

...think and behave differently: the essential nature of that difference being that they can be expected to act more like ‘owners’: be more customer (and market) focused and willing to make sacrifices in hard times in order to sustain the enterprise. They would be expected to expend ‘discretionary effort’. In managerial language, they might be expected to be more...
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Article 5 mins