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Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...economic. The idea is that online video hosts and traditional broadcasters compete for the same audience, but that there isn’t a level playing field because broadcasters have to comply with AVSM Directive rules. The part about competing economically is true – if it weren’t for the Internet, more of us would resort to watching TV. There may be some real imbalances...
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Article 10 mins
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...economic and others. Ideally, to be able to avoid an increase in infection and death when the lockdown is lifted, it is only safe to reopen when the daily number of cases has fallen to low, and extensive ‘test-trace-isolate’ is in place. However, neither of these were true for the UK, where more than 50,000 people have already died, and therefore some experts have...
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Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...economic expansion. Crucially, then, Glasgow's (‘local’) economic fortunes, as with those of many of the other ‘older’ industrial centres of Britain such as Tyneside and Belfast, were integrally tied to the (‘global’) fortunes of the British Empire. The saying ‘Glasgow made the Clyde and the Clyde made Glasgow’ highlights the importance of shipbuilding...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Children’s wellbeing and creativity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Children’s wellbeing and creativity

...Economics Foundation 2012) Wellbeing is not just the absence of ill health. It includes the way that people feel about themselves and their lives. (NHS England 2022) Activity 2 Definitions of wellbeing Timing: Allow 30 mins for this activity Having read the definitions, answer the following questions. 1 What are the common themes that cut across these definitions? Make a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...economic value of film - Film is part of the creative sector – a broad and often loosely defined area which represents a relatively fast growth sector of the economy (certainly in the UK). Along with other creative art forms, film also occupies an important place in cultural life. To begin this course, think about film’s importance as both a cultural and a commercial...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...economic growth understand some concepts to more sustainably manage waste and resources identify some of the emerging social responses to China’s environmental problems assess your own waste management habits...Waste management and environmentalism in China: 1 Waste in China - From their changing diet to owning more household objects, the Chinese are becoming great...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...economically peripheral in a sense that they tend to be monocultural, dependent on one activity. In this case of course the – the nuclear industry. And they are politically relatively powerless. So there is a political dimension to this. Socially they have a particular – I suppose a particular culture, which you could describe, and I tend to describe as a nuclear...
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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...economic, cultural and political change has led to significant shifts in the gender composition of the labour force and in sections of the economy. Further, a shift in the balance of workplace power towards owners and managers, and an increasing and widening pattern of disputes in the public sector in Scotland has become more marked since the 1980s. Alongside these...
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