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Happy New Year
Miscellaneous

Happy New Year

...money habits, boost your confidence and make smarter financial decisions for now and the future. Choose health Whether you've eaten too many mince pies over the Christmas break and need a health kick, or maybe you want to concentrate on your mental health and wellbeing this year instead - we've got you covered with our free courses and articles. Make sure you check out...
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Article 5 mins
Hope in a changing climate
Nature & Environment

Hope in a changing climate

...money from their produce. An interview with the Rwandan President H.E. Paul Kagame President Kagame's looks at the way forward, 'there is no excuse for anybody to continue to cause damage to our planet'. Presidents Kagame's message is that people are the solution and that people who pollute more, pay more, and people who pollute less are rewarded. Ethiopia: Trees for life...
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Audio 56 mins
Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...money; what’s clear is that the work disappeared from view. During the 1870s, some expert detective work positively identified a surviving example of the poem as the work of Shelley. Much more recently in 2006, a single copy was re-discovered by the scholar H.R.Woudhuysen, but it was lodged in a private collection so the work remained hidden from public view. That was...
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Article 5 mins
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...business. Declining fan interest in the Olympics could lead to a fall in ticket sales, and therefore in revenues. In the same way, if consumers become less interested in the games, television and advertising revenue is likely to suffer, as people switch off from the event. All of this shows that there is a business case for getting on top of doping. At a time when...
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LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters

...businesses, charities, politicians and businesses stood shoulder to shoulder with our community demanding change. Unfortunately, like so many times before, this change was not achieved through the Northern Ireland Assembly, but rather was introduced and passed through Westminster with cross party support from MPs and peers. Across the UK, Ireland and the world we are...
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Article 5 mins
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...Business School is offering a new course: B324 Marketing and society. It includes three main areas: social marketing (40 per cent of the course), marketing ethics (30 per cent of the course) and responsible business marketing (30 per cent of the course). This OpenLearn course examines the nature of social marketing and how the adoption of marketing concepts, frameworks...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...Businesses. Direct impacts included damage to buildings and stock and loss of income due to business disruption in the event of flood and higher insurance premiums for businesses located in flood-risk areas. Government. The public expect the government to be in control if there is a major flood. It is responsible for relief work and ensuring safety and clean up. It may...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...business event. What do we do? Mostly unconsciously we search around the room making judgements! We might not like to admit this intellectually, but at an unconscious level we look to see who looks safe or possibly threatening, or who might be attractive or otherwise, or who might be ‘like us’ in some way. We then gravitate only towards the people who pass our...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs