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Tubman: The Moses of Her People
History & The Arts

Tubman: The Moses of Her People

...account of her life in 1869. After this, other stalwarts of the Railroad era told of her remarkable exploits, and gradually she came to be cherished as an icon of the battle against slavery. Over thirty years after the Civil War, she was awarded a military pension, and when she died in 1913 she was buried with full military honours. Reverence for Tubman has grown ever...
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Article 10 mins
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...accounts properly for the environment. The big, missing thing is that even in the current political conversations in the UK, we’re leading to an election, the environment is not featuring high on the agenda, and accounting for the environment certainly isn’t. So I think we all have a duty to collaborate, to try and overcome that pessimism and sense that we can’t...
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Video 30 mins
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...accounts for both its stability and the way it can be replicated – the first two of these three key properties. Click below to view the video. It was in 1953 that James Watson and Francis Crick (Figure 1) working in the UK, deduced and published the three-dimensional structure of DNA. It was the year that might be described as the dawn of molecular biology, for their...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...account how the source of information in each case has performed against expectations. The resulting insights can lead to some surprises: ‘Often we have found that contacts assumed to be positive were not positive at all. Knowing the types of existing brand contacts will do much to assist the communication planner in developing effective programs, especially in foreign...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...account is taken of the emotional component and how it plays a significant part in the experience of health, illness and dying? When someone is dying, the relationship between the health care professional(s) and the dying person is extremely important, in terms of not only the control of bodily death, but also emotional responses. This is especially the case if the dying...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...accountable for what it’s done. It’s answerable. Nigel: We’ve got the idea then that a group of people can together be morally responsible. In the area of business how does this connect with the idea of the social responsibility of organisations? Alex: So you’re talking about corporate social responsibility, CSR as it’s known. The big buzz word. They talk all...
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Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...accountant Nebamun commissioned the walls of his tomb-chapel to be painted with scenes depicting his afterlife, and the world in which he lived. Nebamun worked in the temple of Amun at Karnak during the reign of Amenhotep III (c. 1390-1352 BC). Amenhotep was one of the most important kings of the 18th Dynasty, one of the high points of Egyptian wealth, but his reign...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...accounts, utilising data that was available to me, but also, as well, undertaking a rich picture to understand the organisational context and the problems within the organisation. Also, as well, using different academic theories such as the power-versus-interest matrix. And essentially, it was a constantly iterative process of gathering information, analysing the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs