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Unlikely Leaders
Money & Business

Unlikely Leaders

...worked since 1993 for the development of women, children, and strong families in the remote areas of the Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa (KPK) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of North West Pakistan Kor (www.khwendokor.org.pk). The UK Friends of Khwendo Kor Kor (www.frok.org.uk) was established in 2002 to help Khwendo Kor's fundraising efforts. Its aim is to raise...
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Video 58 mins
Handel: A Classical Icon
History & The Arts

Handel: A Classical Icon

...work for and how did he make a living? A smart political operator, Handel composed for royalty in Rome, Germany and Britain. Handel's Divas Opera singers of C18th were as famous as premier football players today. Donald Burrows reveals the scandals that made Handel's theatre the talk of the town. Handel's Samson Oratorio in Context Donald Burrows outlines the risks Handel...
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Video 54 mins
Water in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Water in Ethiopia

...works. In addition to increasing pressures from a growing population, the reservoir is already filling up with silt washed down from the surrounding area; made worse by soil erosion and inadequate environmental protection. Sharing a river Conflict arises between three farming villages in the highlands of northern Ethiopia as the communities attempt to share water from the...
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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...work, draw general conclusions and use textual evidence to argue a case understand and use academic conventions: referencing and bibliography...Approaching prose fiction: 1 Why do we read prose fiction? - Prose fiction, whether in the form of the novel or the short story, is unarguably the most popular and widely consumed literary genre. One only has to see the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...working people in our country for years to come.’ Again, there was no time to pause for a history lesson but in its parliamentary setting, this echoes the phrase used by another Tory Prime Minister, the Earl of Derby, in 1867 during the passage of the Second Reform Bill. The crucial difference is that Lord Derby was advocating a leap in the dark and it was one which...
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Article 10 mins
How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...working on the words for numbers as these have the same meaning in any language. The longest path of development simulated so far goes backwards 8,000 years from English one to its PIE ancestor oinos, and likewise for other numerals. They have also ‘gone forwards’ from the PIE penkwe to the modern Greekpente, modern Welsh pimp and modern English five, as well as...
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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...work and there is, unfortunately, no reason to think that this lacuna of openness is any different in many other areas. As the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents states, “all official documents are in principle public and can be withheld subject only to the protection of other rights and legitimate interests”. This recognises the absolute...
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Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?
Money & Business

Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?

...work by law scholars Tamara Hervey at the University of Sheffield and Joaquin Cayon-De Las Cuevas at the University of Cantabria. Another concern is pensions and whether annual increases in the state pension will continue to be paid after Brexit. These increments are not paid to those living outside of the EU in countries like Canada and Australia, whose state pension is...
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