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Year of the Ox: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Ox: Chinese New Year

...15 days in total. Celebrate the new year by dipping into some of our fantastic resources on China and Chinese. In addition to those free resources, you may also wish to have look at our newly launched short course in Chinese business culture, starting on 27th February 2021. Happy Niu/New Year! Want to learn some Chinese words and phrases? Explore Chinese culture...
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Innovative efforts to raise wages
Money & Business

Innovative efforts to raise wages

...business-friendly ideas are put into question by much contemporary economic reality. Current trends show that, if left to their devices, big corporations will generally seek to depress wages for the sake of short term profit even if this leads to long term problems of inequality and poverty. However, are the conventional social democratic solutions of the past up to the...
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HeadStart Classical Studies
History & The Arts

HeadStart Classical Studies

...business of worshipping gods through the case study of Amphiaraos, an ancient Greek hero associated with healing through the medium of dreams. By looking at a wide range of textual and visual evidence connected with his worship, you’ll build up a fascinating picture of ancient religious practices and explore the importance of religion both to individual Greeks and to...
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How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...business. It would be unfeasible, with Facebook's terrifyingly large user base, for the company to check ID at the proverbial door, but not enforcing a real-name policy would also undercut the essence of Facebook's business model. We all know that Facebook makes most of its money from data that it sells to advertisers. Part of what makes this data so valuable and powerful...
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10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...business achievement. Want to know some in-depth answers to life's burning questions? Discover a range of questions at the heart of modern life with our throwback series _The Big Question._ 7: Tumblr [Tumblr homepage] With the likes of Lady Gaga and Barack Obama using it, Tumblr is the star-studded go-to microblog. Founded by David Karp in 2007, and acquired by Yahoo! in...
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Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...business after all – but it’s not the whole truth. [Concrete Cows, 2012 Intu shopping centre ] Concrete Cows, 2012 Intu shopping centre The originals, a small herd of three cows and two calves, were created in the late 1970s by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation’s first community artist-in-residence Liz Leyh, with help from some of the town’s first,...
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A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...business of his, any more than the most outlying nebula or the coal-sacks of the southern hemisphere: his solar system was the parish; the master's temper and the casualties of lambing-time were his region of storms. He cut his bread and bacon with his pocket-knife, and felt no bitterness except in the matter of pauper laborers and the bad-luck that sent contrarious...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...business that diverse leadership leads to better governance. Diverse boards have a greater wealth of experience, thought and perspective. This results in more effective risk management, better decision making and, ultimately, better performance and success (Farrer & Co, 2019). A recent report by McKinsey & Co (2020) (one of the ‘big 5’ management consultants in the...
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