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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...social networking which allow individuals to stay in touch simultaneously with friends, family and work colleagues with different language backgrounds. The evidence points to a growing tolerance of multiple standards in English and growing flexibility and fluidity in the use of English by global citizens. [Signage in English and Chinese [Image: Augapfel under CC-BY...
Article 10 mins
Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...social media campaigns by right-wing interests and the agendas of wealthy corporate individual and foreign politicians that are only now becoming clear as campaign funding issues are becoming exposed Selection of politicians and the ‘Dark Triad’ in politics Part of the problem is that the assessment processes for ensuring that MPs are fit to practice as trustworthy...
What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...social type that is causing grief in modern diverse societies: the “Integrationsverweigerer;” literally someone who refuses to integrate, a “Verweigerer” is a “conscientious objector” or a “refusenik.” The principal characteristic of a “Integrationsverweigerer” is that they are not learning German and the German government is now planning to get tough...
Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline
History & The Arts

Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline

...working for the civil service, Adolf is able to pursue his preferred choice of study, that of art. He attends art school and regards himself as an artist, absorbing diverse cultural influences, the opera, theatre, reading and drawing. 1907 Hitler moves to Vienna with the aim of attending the Vienna Academy of Art, but his application is rejected. His disappointment is...
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...work through seven sections in which you will engage with some of the major aspects of economic policy: What types of problems are governments concerned with? Which policy instruments do they have at their disposal? How do they make decisions about the effectiveness of alternative courses of action? One of the most challenging aspects of economic policy and decision...
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...worked in many remote locations, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, to reveal the beauty, complexity and the threats facing some of the planet’s last great wildernesses and their inhabitants. Transcript Earth in Vision Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 My name is Caroline Underwood and I’m now a senior producer at the CBC’s science series called The...
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...working on A Venetian Coronation 1595 actually do? In the model of recording western art music that held for large projects in 1990, and still holds in some cases today, the producers, who are responsible for bringing a recording such as this to the marketplace, take on two specific tasks. First comes the creative activity of selecting the music, choosing arrangements,...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...worked for decades to prevent the use of nuclear weapons, with the ultimate aim of abolishing them altogether. You will see how opposition to nuclear weapons has been an important cause on every continent. Beginning in 1945, this course will equip you with knowledge of the nature of anti-nuclear activism until the present day...In this free course you will learn about the...