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Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...open to other current non-EU members such as Ukraine or Turkey. This “flexibility across” states would delimit different circles of integration, but if a country wished to be part of the inner circle, it would have to conform to the core values attached to it. Outer circles could be based on softer degrees of cooperation with fewer strings attached and in line with...
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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...open to multiple interpretations and can create confusion for educators who work to make all the reading undertaken – in English lessons, in projects and in cross curricula and extra curricula contexts – pleasurable. But in order to foster reading for pleasure in schools, homes and community contexts, conceptual clarity is essential, alongside awareness of the subtle...
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Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...opening stock, has the following closing balances in its income and expense accounts for the financial year just ended on 31 December 20X5: Sales £21,568 Purchases £10,261 Rent £4,568 Heating and lighting £756 Insurance £329 Office expenses £287 At the last day of the year a stocktake was carried out and the stock figure for the year was £987. Using the template...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...source of material for me is the things that people say to each other. Um, so whether it’s something overheard on the bus or something a friend tells me or some small detail within a conversation, within a piece of dialogue that makes you think oh, that’s a story. Or, not even that’s a story actually, it’s more like oh that’s a character, and oh this is the kind...
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Audio 45 mins
Crime fiction in French: le polar français
Languages

Crime fiction in French: le polar français

...Open University course L332 French Studies 3: language and culture of the French-speaking world Most of the material in this course is in French. The language level is Advanced, equivalent to C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages....Crime fiction in French: le polar français: Introduction - This course offers you around six hours of study in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...source of heavenly benedictions, because he carried his cross with Christ, that is, with patience, resignation and holy joy. St. Patrick, after six months spent in slavery under the same master, was admonished by God in a dream to return to his own country, and informed that a ship was then ready to sail thither. He repaired immediately to the sea-coast, though at a great...
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...sources restricts the development of ways of resisting and challenging its toxic social presence. Criminological scholarship needs better tools to bridge the gap between the ontological subjectivity of race and its epistemological objectivity; tools that can account for the way it appears as a solid ‘social fact’ in our work, but then disappears as a ‘social...
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Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...sources of historical information on Ernestine’s life and her beliefs can be found in an 8-page interview that she did for the magazine. She later became a leader for the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis. Ernestine was also an early activist in the Black feminist movement of the 1970s and was involved with the organisation Black Women Organized for Action....
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