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30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...managers and owners, enabling them to highlight shared concerns.” Dr Richard Blundel, current editor of the Quarterly Survey, said: “It is difficult to overstate the sheer pace of change that SME managers and owners have experienced during the last three decades. It is apparent that the spread of digital technologies has had a particularly dramatic impact on small...
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Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?
Society, Politics & Law

Immigration detention: what's the problem with privatisation?

...manage detention facilities in Harmondsworth near Heathrow airport and a second one near Manchester airport. In 1971, Securicor Group Limited and Security Services Limited were also listed on the London Stock Exchange. Ten years later, in 1981, Securicor Chair Peter Smith was awarded the OBE for services to the ‘security industry’. This was just the beginning of new...
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Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...management Evidence-based management is about making decisions through the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of the best available evidence from multiple sources by: Asking: translating a practical issue or problem into an answerable question. Acquiring: systematically searching for and retrieving the evidence. Appraising: critically judging the trustworthiness...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...projects. Question 3 Sen Figure 3 A flower Answer This picture has an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. It is the most restrictive of the six main Creative Commons licences, allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. Name the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982

...Manager of the Cumbernauld Development Corporation informed the Corporation that “he [would] advise the board of trade informally that, until further notice, no more enquiries to be considered for clothing firms’ (‘Minutes of the Industry Committee of Cumbernauld Development Corporation, 1965 – 1969’, meeting of 19 January 1965). [The former Lovable Factory in...
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Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 My name’s Vanessa Berlowitz and I’m an Executive Producer at the BBC Natural History Unit where I’ve been working for about 23 years and I’m currently working on a number of projects including One Planet, Waking Giants and Skyworld. How I got started I was drawn to work at the Natural History Unit after doing a degree...
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Building the London Underground
History & The Arts

Building the London Underground

...project, which, when known, will excite very great interest in the metropolis. It is for the purpose of making a railway under the ground from the lower end of the Edgware Road to the Lings Cross. The subterranean railway will, for the most part, run beneath the New Road. The estimated capital for the execution of the work is £300,000 and, as a proof that the scheme can...
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Article 5 mins
Careers in Esports
Science, Maths & Technology

Careers in Esports

...projected to reach approximately USD 48.09 billion by 2034. Audience growth continues to accelerate, with the global esports viewing population expected to reach 641 million in 2025 (SQ Magazine). This makes esports a vibrant, creative and quickly expanding industry for anyone considering a future career in this space. We met with Leyla Sabet, Head of Education at...
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Video 15 mins