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Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...world politics. A few years later, the euro crisis also fostered divisions across the EU along pragmatic lines. Debtor and creditor countries were pursuing opposing recipes with regards to fiscal consolidation, debt mutualisation and the final shape of the Economic and Monetary Union. But the bottom line of their arguments was that the euro should benefit national goals,...
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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...world’s great meritocracy”. To deliver the biggest reform of further education in 70 years, £500m a year from 2019 has been committed to improve technical education. The current complex and vast range of technical qualifications will be streamlined into 15 routes, offering students T level vocational qualifications of equal value to A-Levels. The chancellor sees...
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Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...world smartphone use. PloS one, 10(10), e0139004. Appel, H., Gerlach, A. L., & Crusius, J. (2016). The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression. Current Opinion in Psychology, 9, 44-49. Chang, A. M., Aeschbach, D., Duffy, J. F., & Czeisler, C. A. (2015). Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and...
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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...world of trade unionism. At the time of writing in October 2022, we wait to see whether such a direction of travel towards direct action will be reinvigorated or whether rhetoric will prove stronger than such action. [Unison strike action banner, calling for a yes vote] Reflecting on nurses disputes in Scotland The first nurses’ strike in Scotland since the setting up...
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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...world and solving problems in narratives. Social pleasure: e.g., belonging to a community of readers and connecting to others through reading as well as identifying as a reader. The pleasure of functional work: e.g., using reading to learn, think, and act in different ways, and using reading to shape one’s writing. The pleasure of inner work: e.g., using reading to...
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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...world of quite strong needs. A camera can discover somebody and they can mumble something, and a little mic that's stuck behind their ear can kind of pick it up, so there isn't quite that same kind of compulsion behind characters' need to speak in film and screenwriting, but stuff has got to really send somebody out into the stage and send them and send something right up...
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Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...world realised they ‘needed’ such a device? As technological change accelerates, marketers must make increasingly risky bets on the future in order to have a chance of success. Such marketers must understand customers better than customers understand themselves. Satisfying – means providing products and services that meet needs effectively. Marketing has been...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...World War, art history tended to involve a mix of antiquarianism, connoisseurship and liberal humanist values that incorporated some of the idealist notion that art is a reflection of enduring, trans-historical values. At the same time, its commitment to the idea of the individual artist of genius aligned it with the requirements of the art market. The central assumption...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs