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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...work much better because they’re not congested, so this is no longer a burden that countries feel that they have to bear and ideally somebody else should bear it; it’s a development path which looks like it’s beneficial for many reasons and that makes it much easier to act and it creates lobbies for action, political lobbies, economic lobbies, businesses who benefit...
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Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...working capital’. This is where the outstanding amounts due to creditors, or accounts payable, exceed those due to be received from debtors, the accounts receivable, plus the financial value of inventory. In these circumstances, the organisation’s creditors are, in effect, providing free finance for the business! This ideal situation is unfortunately difficult to...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...work for an organization called Mediate NI, based in Derry, Londonderry. Well, alternative dispute resolution takes many forms, but I think what we really means is an alternative to the court process, where people do not have to go to court if they can find another way of settling the dispute. So mediation is a third-party intervention in a dispute to help parties reach...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...works, that that's quite sharp and clear. So, for everybody's sake I'm just going to repeat it very quickly which is, you know, layer one is the question of the labelling or naming or defining of things. Layer two is that the world is then categorised into different groups so that distinction between bogus and genuine, the deserving and undeserving. Then I thought that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'
Languages

My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'

...working. I was surprised that he left his seat without permission, but I did not take any action. He left his seat for more tissues a second time and other pupils started to giggle. “Something is going on” I thought to myself. As I walked towards him, I realized that he had spilled his tea on the floor and he was using lots of tissues to absorb the liquid. “Are you...
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Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...work is starting on locating the resting place of another medieval monarch, Henry I (d. 1135), in Reading (like Richard III, Henry is also thought to be under a car park). Meanwhile, the Church of England is stoutly refusing to allow DNA tests to be carried out on bones thought to be those of the “princes in the Tower” who disappeared in 1483, and who may be buried in...
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What is happening in Brazil?
Society, Politics & Law

What is happening in Brazil?

...work. The extra cash benefited companies and Petrobras executives, who often shared the money with lobbyists and political figures (to whom many Petrobras executives owe their jobs). The company has had 10 billion dollars in financial losses because of the scheme, according to estimates by the Federal Police. So far, 93 people have been condemned in the investigation,...
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What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...Working through the process of multilateral consensus building, she deferred to Obama when necessary and listened to the views of Europe’s leaders on key issues (such as the invasion of Libya). She attempted to implement a strategy built on her avowed principle of ‘smart power’: utilising both ‘hard’ (military) and ‘soft’ (diplomatic) tools in various...
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