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Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline
History & The Arts

Hitler's rise and fall: Timeline

...courses and qualifications. [Adolf Hitler [Image: Walter Frentz Archive]] Jump to: Birth and childhood Entry into politics Rise to power Third Reich World War II Death Hitler's birth and childhood 20 April 1889 [Adolf Hitler as a baby (c.1889-90)] Adolf Hitler as an infant Adolf Hitler is born on April 20th in Braunau am Inn in the empire of Austria-Hungary. His parents'...
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?

...courses and qualifications. Germany has discovered a new 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...
Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...courses and qualifications. You might be surprised about the different career paths that are emerging for nursing associates (NAs) in the healthcare workforce. In fields such as research and education there are increasing opportunities for band 4 NAs to progress without requiring the degree Transfer to Nursing (top-up) programme to be a registered nurse. You may be...
Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...courses. Digital carbon footprints and the remote workforce Today many companies find themselves at the intersection of two global workforce megatrends – distributed, remote workforces and the phenomenon known as the Great Resignation. These two trends have disrupted the notion of the workplace and the employer’s sphere of workforce responsibility, leaving many...
Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...courses and qualifications and Early Years courses and qualifications. [Children in tent - Corbis] When I look back on my own childhood in the 1970s and 80s and compare it with children today, it reminds me of that famous sentence ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ (from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between). Even in a relatively short...
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...course, the unit that’s been inspired by David Attenborough and I had always really admired his work. And then thought actually I think so many of the people that I’ve met are really driven by an awareness of the environment and every time we started filming in any location, you would hear people saying ‘but the real story is’, and that’s what’s driven me to...
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...course, are hardly new. Over the last few decades we’ve had industrial devices that assemble cars, vacuum our floors and shunt stuff around warehouses. But the 2010s have seen a rise in the attention paid to robots of the kind that most of us still think of as robots: autonomous machines that can sense their surroundings, respond, move, do things and, above all,...
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...free, because you’ve already shot it, but I would always say it’s never used as padding, it’s used to propel a story and as long as you are accurate in the way you’re portraying it and you’re not mixing it with new stuff and pretending it was all happening at the same time or you are using it in its relevant context, and if actually the world has changed since...