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Managing your money: understand your bank statement
Money & Business

Managing your money: understand your bank statement

Want to know more about how to check and understand your bank statement? This short video offers tips on how to manage your transactions and keep on top of your finances...Transcript
Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?
Society, Politics & Law

Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?

...business - or are they just transwagon jumping? Nowadays, trans people are everywhere. According to pop culture, gender fluidity is the new thing. Seeing the money making possibilities, everyone wants in. But they don't always get it right. The new Zoolander 2 trailer has just dropped, featuring the trans character ‘All’. Played by cis actor Benedict Cumberbatch, the...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste

...business...[Woman in Gallery] Nothing accounts for taste – as they old saying goes. However, in the modern world art is not only inspiring but also big business. In this episode of The Bottom Line, guests in the art world discuss the relation of art and business. Specifically, how is and should art be valued? Who decides what is and what is not fashionable? Is art just...
Managing my money for young adults: in partnership with the Harrison Foundation
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults: in partnership with the Harrison Foundation

...money for young adults course on OpenLearn Create funded by the Harrison Foundation and support by the Harrison Centre for Social Mobility. You make thousands of decisions every day, some are are trivial, and some are hard and could affect your future. Personal financial decisions (decisions related to your income, spending, savings or investing) are usually hard and...
Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?
Money & Business

Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?

...money tree. But, as Alan Shipman explains, low bond yields might be the next best thing...[HM Treasury] Inside the Treasury When the UK government found £1 billion for Northern Ireland to secure Democratic Unionist parliamentary support, critics accused it of turning to the same “magic money tree” it had previously mocked others for believing in. But it may just be...
Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted
Society, Politics & Law

Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted

...business has intervened to liven up the debate. The country’s main industry lobby group wants its members to make a decisive contribution to the pro-EU campaign, but what has become clear in recent days is that there will be a far more complex picture of the corporate response than we might have anticipated. At a speech in London on Wednesday, Mike Rake, the president...
Why gender quotas in business and politics are ineffective at overcoming sexism
Money & Business

Why gender quotas in business and politics are ineffective at overcoming sexism

...is important, but embedding gender equality as something normal will involve a much longer and deeper process of engagement with identity and ethical practice in organisation and individual behaviour. Read the article: Taylor, Scott and Smolovic-Jones, O. “Why Gender Quotas in Business and Politics Are Ineffective at Overcoming Sexism” Newsweek September 28, 2016...
Economy, business and development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
Society, Politics & Law

Economy, business and development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

...business and economic policy in driving the EU policy, the commercial motives for Brexit and what remains of the EU’s original vision of economic integration as a route to social and political integration. It also looks at what is to become of the EU’s, and the UK’s, international development efforts post-Brexit. Transcript For more Studnet Hub Live events, visit...