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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...course, be expected to make efficiency savings by sharing resources, something that has been shown to work effectively in the past. For example, earlier this year Warwickshire and West Mercia Police began sharing IT and training resources – and even responding to calls in each other’s localities – with great success. Osborne has said that revisions to OBR forecasts...
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...course questions about what makes our life meaningful also arise in our ordinary mortal lives; just in our ordinary decisions about what kind of life to lead. Even if you think immortality isn’t a real possibility, it can still be useful to think about the possibility when we’re thinking about these more practical questions. And that’s because sometimes thinking...
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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...courses. Background The American corporation Timex first came to Dundee in 1946, setting up with eleven workers in the back of a converted farm building. At its peak in the 1970s, Timex had become one of the largest employers in the city, employing thousands of workers at four sites across Dundee. Most of the Timex workforce were women and they performed intricate work...
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Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...courses and qualifications. Astrobiology isn’t a subject on the school curriculum or even in many universities. Could you tell me something about your journey to astrobiology? It was a long journey. A very long journey indeed! I was always fascinated by rocks and minerals, how they formed and how they behaved, so I studied mineralogy at university. I just loved the...
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The trailblazers of 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting 2025
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trailblazers of 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting 2025

...courses. When and where. RUGBY Women’s Rugby World Cup: 22–27 AUGUST Hosted by England, this premier event will bring together the world’s best women’s rugby teams, promising intense matches and showcasing the sport’s growth. World Cup matches schedule confirmed. CRICKET Women’s Cricket World Cup: 1 September Taking place in India, this tournament will feature...
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Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards or enhancing current employment experiences or preparing for new roles or positions...Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, working practices have significantly changed for most people. Many are working from home and there is a blurring of the edges around where work starts and ends and where home starts and ends. At...
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Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...free-masonries of ANY trade by careful reading and studying. But when I got him to read again the passage from Shakespeare with the interlardings, he perceived, himself, that books couldn't teach a student a bewildering multitude of pilot-phrases so thoroughly and perfectly that he could talk them off in book and play or conversation and make no mistake that a pilot would...
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...courses all kicked up for two or three years after Blue Planet, because of the impact that that series made on the public. Should the environmental programme accompanying Blue Planet have been shown on a different channel? Blue Planet came out as eight blue chip, straight natural history programmes and there was a ninth programme which was called Making Waves, which was...
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