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Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers
Education & Development

Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers

...writing CV’s and attending interviews to help Kickstart employees into sustainable employment should they progress permanently into an organisation from their existing Kickstart placement or need support for their next job or learning opportunity. [Lady working by a window] Each course comes with a statement of participation and a digital badge, allowing learners and...
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Endgame - Regicide
History & The Arts

Endgame - Regicide

...write, Cromwell grabbed his hand and forced him to sign his name. Bowing to the inevitable, Charles met his end with great fortitude. On 30th January 1649, he climbed the specially - erected scaffold outside Banqueting House to face execution. Re-affirming his allegiance to Anglicanism and his innocence of the charges, executioner Brandon then severed his head with one...
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This Sporting Planet
Society, Politics & Law

This Sporting Planet

...writes extensively on political issues, including the political and social significance of sport and critical debates about the governance of sport. Academic Perspective Course chair, Professor Kath Woodward, discusses her interest in sport and talks us through the content of the course and this album. Academic Perspective 2 Course chair, Professor Kath Woodward, talks...
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Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...writing TMAs, revising for exams, or for making links with later parts of the course. As students you will be using a variety of course materials and you will make notes in a variety of ways probably. You will be using course books, which you may be reading, or listening to on tape, course cassettes like this one you will be listening to, watching TV programmes and...
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Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture
Languages

Reeta Chakrabarti on language and culture

...writing French, and that’s partly laziness, but I also sometimes wonder, is it because I have oral Bengali? And perhaps I’m quite good at communicating, but not actually particularly good at writing. Interviewer: They say language learning opens doors to cultures, have you found that the languages you speak helped you get to know other cultures or people better? Reeta...
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Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
Languages

Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?

...writing this from Italy, one of the most Anglophile countries on earth. Didn’t you know? Trust me: I hear in the streets that we’ve got young kids called Jennifer, Ryan, Kevin, and more. Hardly anyone bothers to call their children Maria or Giuseppe anymore. Too traditional. Nevermind that people with an English first name and an Italian surname may sound like a...
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After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack
Health, Sports & Psychology

After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack

...writes a message of support] A boy writes a message at a vigil in Liverpool, following the Manchester Attack The idea of being caught up in a terrorist attack is most people’s biggest fear. [The Conversation] Unfortunately though, as the recent bombing at the Manchester Arena shows, these types of attacks are a very real threat. But knowing how to respond and assist...
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Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
Nature & Environment

Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago

...writes in his excellent new book, A Most Deliberate Swindle, much of this pollution could have been avoided. More than a century ago the technology existed for electric vehicles – hailed today as one of the main ways to tackle the urban pollution crisis. The adoption of a revolutionary vehicle called the electrobus could have ushered in an age of clean transport – and...
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