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Introducing professional practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing professional practice

...course K114 Introducing professional practice... Introducing professional practice A short introduction to this album. A day in the life of a hospital ward: Ward Sister A Ward Sister describes a typical day for her A day in the life of a hospital ward: Senior Registrar A Dave Senior Registrar in medicine describes a typical day for him A day in the life of a hospital...
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The banking crisis: cause and effect
Money & Business

The banking crisis: cause and effect

...course DB234 Personal investment in an uncertain world... The banking crisis: cause and effect A short introduction to this album. The collapse Banks were once the corner stone of modern British society, but by September 2005 banks stopped lending to each other overnight. What happened? What caused this credit crisis? Casino Banking As banks were pressured to increase...
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Audio 42 mins
Financial strategy and private finance initiative
Money & Business

Financial strategy and private finance initiative

...course B821 Financial strategy... Financial Strategy An introduction to this album. PFI - an introduction Culture shift: using private finance to fund public projects. Why PFI? Comparing the Private Finance Initiative with financing through the public sector. The public sector Choosing the PFI route means Calderdale NHS Trust can finally have a new hospital. Proving a PFI...
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Welfare, crime and society
Society, Politics & Law

Welfare, crime and society

...course DD208 Welfare, crime and society... Welfare, crime and society A short introduction to the album. Surveillance: safe shopping Surveillance and security in the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds. Surveillance: perceptions of security Private and public, formal and informal forms of security in the White Rose Shopping Centre. Gated communities: who and why?...
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Audio 1 hr 20 mins
Design is open
Science, Maths & Technology

Design is open

...courses and qualifications. Design is a dynamic profession. Today, design skills are needed not only in traditional design domains, but also across a variety of non-design domains and sectors, to help put creativity into action and address social and environmental challenges. In the UK alone, over 1.6 million people—about 1 in every 20 workers—are employed in design...
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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...Germans, and Italians.​ Up to the middle of the twentieth century, most Americans knew the story of the Acadians thanks to Evangeline, an Acadian literary heroine who became an American icon. The epic poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847),written by New England poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, describes the separation of the two lovers Evangeline Bellefontaine and...
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Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...course, 1997 I decided to launch BP on a programme of changing its business and saying actually climate change is a problem, is an existential threat and changing the way BP worked. And I gave that speech in Stanford at that time. RH: And politicians were taking it up keenly at the time, when you look back just historically, does it look like a short time ago, are we...
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Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...course, most people vote. Very few people admit to not voting, and those that do are not usually proud of the fact. But, at the last General Election (in 2015) 15 million people (some 34% of the electorate) did not vote. At no election in recent history has turnout exceeded 80% (it was 78% in 1992). And, whilst that figure might sound high it means that somewhere between...
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