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Should I use a skills-based CV to smooth the gaps in my employment history?
Money & Business

Should I use a skills-based CV to smooth the gaps in my employment history?

...ask their permission first) You do not need to include: nationality (unless you will need a UK work permit) marital status details and ages of children your health status school and university address examining boards minor qualifications unrelated to the post applied for You can find further support with developing an effective CV as part of the Learning To Learn course...
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A reader's guide to Ulysses
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Ulysses

...'Bloomsday'. During the course of the day, literary events are held in Dublin to commemorate Joyce and his work. Where does Bloomsday start - and what places in Dublin are important for Bloomsday? There are hundreds of ways to celebrate! If you need some inspiration, feel free to start with our interactive map below. @@PLUGINFILE@@/Bloomsday%20map.h5p?time=1717765290731...
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Water in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Water in Ethiopia

...course U116 Environment: journeys through a changing world... Water in Ethiopia A short introduction to this album. Water - a human right Access to water in Ethiopia can be a matter of life or death. This is brief look at the lives of people for whom an adequate water supply can never be taken for granted. Water in rural Ethiopia A day in the life of Yeshiemebet Zewdu., a...
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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...Opening Ceremony in Rio] The 2016 Paralympic opening ceremony Are the Paralympians 'superhuman'? John Head, from the University of Salford, salutes the prosthetics that will be on display at Rio - and, more, the acheivements of the people who sport them: More perhaps than any other visual event, Paralympic sprinting shows what can be achieved by dedication, commitment and...
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Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...openness and tolerance, nationalism and patriotism, dissensus and collectivism. For Gil, the aim was to recreate a sense of home and community; while the re-appropriation of the Union Jack in its various popular cultural incarnations (from logos to emblematic LP covers and recently various kitsch paraphernalia) is widespread, Gil was inspired by a doormat which he had...
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Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...Open University On first sight, Iran and Syria make strange bedfellows. One is perhaps the world’s preeminent theocracy and the other a secular Arab-nationalist state – and yet their alliance is one of the most enduring in the Middle East. The two share a strategic outlook on key regional issues, not least the plight of the Palestinians. Together with Hezbollah in...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...Open University and I am joined here by Andrew Blowers, OBE. We are continuing our discussion about your book The Legacy of Nuclear Power. I think you are making a very strong point at the end of your book when you take a critical, when you are critical of the currently favoured approach to dealing with nuclear waste, which is deep geological disposal and you are kind of...
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Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...course it is sometimes better and sometimes worse. It is hard to know if it is more hotel or more station; perhaps it is a mixture of each which defies analysis; but in its well-studied composition you pass, as it were, from your car to your room, as from one chamber to another. This is putting the fact poetically; but, prosaically, the intervening steps are few at the...
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