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Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...profile volunteering received during the 2012 London Olympic Games. Jennie Rayner, CSV Communications Officer, 2014 Volunteering is clearly a major concern, and can contribute to the development of skills to enhance employability. The opportunities for volunteering can be very varied. The 2012 Olympics depended on 70,000 volunteers , and volunteering can also involve for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...et al., Chemical Storylines, G. Heinemann Educational Publishers Part of the Salters Advanced Chemistry course, which explores the frontiers of research and the applications of contemporary chemistry. For A level and other science courses aimed at 16 to 19-year olds. Fraser A. and Gilchrist I., Starting Science (Book 1), Oxford University Press Part of an integrated...
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Article 15 mins
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...et al. (2010, p. 345) acknowledge that the coach has a central role in influencing moral behaviour, stating ‘the coaching session, the training field, the changing room, the game, are all environments where children (and older athletes), alongside the presence of the coach, develop and test the moral dimensions of their evolving characters’. To help practitioners to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...et al., 2014a). Even after music printing had been firmly established, repertory continued to circulate in manuscript. This was perhaps due to there being a lack of music printer-publishers in certain locations, the wish to deliberately restrict or retain control over the dissemination of repertory, or to assert the status of a specially prepared copy (Wyn Jones, 2005, p....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...profile for their brands and attracting consumers. If these customers do not continue to buy and build a relationship with ‘their’ brand, marketers fail to achieve pay-back The last two decades – at least – have seen the rise of the “ethical consumer” ranging from customer boycotts of what they see as “unethical” products to demands for “fair trade”...
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Article 5 mins
Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit

...profiled in a recent Wall Street Journal article, shows what can happen. Thomas Vicino has chronicled the phenomenon in other towns, such as Farmer’s Branch, Texas or Carpentersville, Illinois. There are very few ZIP codes that have seen change on this scale, hence the small sample and wide error bars toward the right. Still, this confirms what virtually all the...
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Article 10 mins
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...profile to have. There is no simple answer to this question. It is certainly true that some extremes carry some risks. Low agreeableness is associated with violence, whilst high neuroticism is associated with the risk of depression and anxiety. However, all the systems whose operation is reflected in personality differences are there for a reason. Anxiety and fear are...
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Article 10 mins
Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...profiles, it is generally a privileged middle or upper-class world of mansions, lawns and swimming pools we see before us. With the pervasiveness of digital cameras and mobile phones, it is anyone’s world that we (and posterity) now have access to. How to deal with the sheer weight of visual information will be one of the main problems for future generations of...
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Article 10 mins