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...Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Welsh and English rescources. Boost your digital skills The ability to use information and communication technologies is becoming increasingly important to employers. Learn how to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information with these free courses. Go after your dream job Do you want to work in healthcare? Maybe construction is more up...
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Welfare, crime and society
Society, Politics & Law

Welfare, crime and society

...Spanish territory. Migration: Legal and illegal The beaurocratic problems migrants face when trying to gain legal status and workers' rights. Migration: monitoring and surveillance The use of documentary evidence as an increasingly important part of border control policy. Migration: the risks of surveillance The dangers of trying to control and monitor migrant populations....
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Parlez-vous Eurovision?
Languages

Parlez-vous Eurovision?

...Spanish Royal Academy of Language complained about the use of English in the chorus of the Spanish entry. It’s not only the songs that are dominated by English. Another Eurovision classic is in decline: you are unlikely to hear many "douze points" being awarded as, although French remains an official voting language in the contest, most national spokespeople choose to...
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Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...Spanish – in three different cultural settings. Try to observe as if encountering language for the first time. Make a list of things that all the extracts have in common and a list of things that are different. Include observations on as many aspects of communication as possible (e.g. meanings, body language, sounds, grammar, social conventions, etc.) Discussion We take...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?
Money & Business

Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?

...effort. Read the paper The full article is titled: “Do employee-owned firms produce more positive employee behavioural outcomes? If not why not? A British-Spanish comparative analysis” by Imanol Basterretxea (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Spain) and John Storey (The Open University, UK). Published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2017....
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Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age
History & The Arts

Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age

...Spanish rule in 1566. After a long and protracted war of independence, the northern Dutch United Provinces formally gained their independence in 1648. From the outset, the majority-Protestant Dutch Republic was surrounded by powerful and mostly Catholic enemies. Spanish control of the Mediterranean meant that in order to trade and prosper, the Dutch had to establish new...
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Article 10 mins
Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?
Languages

Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?

...Spanish – in short, on European languages. As a university educator of Korean, I found this Eurocentrism somewhat surprising and alienating. While it is true that the provision of Asian language teaching in the UK is poor compared to European languages, we urgently need to have a discussion as to whether this should not change. To begin with, the linguistic landscape in...
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Article 5 mins
Darwin in the land of pumas
History & The Arts

Darwin in the land of pumas

...This habit is very different from that of the Spanish Gauchos, who, leading the same kind of life, eat scarcely any; according to Mungo Park, it is people who live on vegetable food who have an unconquerable desire for salt. The Indians gave us good-humoured nods as they passed at full gallop, driving before them a troop of horses, and followed by a train of lanky dogs....
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