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Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...institute Documentation Experience, training and skills Five years’ experience in purchasing Ten years’ experience in purchasing Curriculum vitae (CV) Two years’ experience of supervising small office or section Successful record of supervising qualified staff CV/interview: examples Successful completion of reputable management training course
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...et al. as ‘robust networks of people, artifacts, and institutions that generate, share, and maintain specific knowledge about the human and natural worlds’, and include individuals, organisations, routines, shared norms and practices (2013, p. 5). It’s useful to adopt this inclusive definition, for example, it would include this course, or an archive or a library,...
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...Institution of Civil Engineers’ Dynamics Design and Practice Guide (Maguire and Wyatt, 2002) points out that ‘dynamics is a far more important subject to civil and structural engineers than it used to be, because structures have become lighter, members (structural elements) more slender. These changes have increased amplitude of vibration and moved frequencies into...
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...et al., 2011). They found clear similarities in the domestic play of all the children – for example, in the use of natural materials and everyday items (pots, pans, wraps, bags, buggies and dolls) in their games. The children also often used one object to symbolise something else in their play, like Selin in Turkey whose cooking pot became a hat, much to the amusement...
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...institutions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The referendum vote and the consequences of Brexit highlight some of the tensions between London not only across the UK, but also specifically within England. This week, rather than taking London for granted and assuming the centrality of its position, you will begin to reflect more fully on its relationship with the...
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...institution, designed to strengthen the power of the ruling classes of the different countries within it”. The opposition was unequivocal: “No to the capitalists’ Common Market – on any terms.” In an explicit re-run of the point made in 1971, the IMG argued that “the job of revolutionaries is to intervene to transform the actual struggle against British...
Death on the tracks: A 19th century train crash
History & The Arts

Death on the tracks: A 19th century train crash

...institution from injuries received by an collision on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, on the 27th of August last. Captain Barlow, superintendent of the South-Eastern Railway; Mr Church, solicitor; Mr Biggs, manager; Mr Farmer, deputy-manager of the London and Brighton Railway; and Mr Faithful, solicitor, with several other officials, were in attendance...
What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...institutional relationships, creates the spectre of a Europe cast asunder from an American commitment that has been resolute, indeed iron-clad, since 1945. Not surprisingly, that same Pew poll of Europeans revealed that 85% of those surveyed expressed a lack of confidence in Trump as President. It therefore isn’t surprising that many European leaders yearn for...