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A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...busy schedule, +Desmond regularly preached at the Cathedral, and he was on very good terms with Fr. Ted King the Dean. As +Desmond explained later in his own tribute to the late Ted King (who died of cancer in 1998) it was a “warm and cordial relationship” (Tutu, 2007) and helped him speak truth to power in his public ministry as Archbishop of Cape Town. His sermons...
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...business report may require you to imagine that you are making recommendations to your boss or colleagues for a particular course of action. You need to strive for relevance and conciseness, and your report should proceed in a logical and ordered way...Essay and report writing skills: 4.3 Essays - Now let's turn to essays. Activity 4 Note down in your Learning Journal...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...business links with Chinese-speaking countries. Or perhaps you are simply fascinated by the sound, the script and its ancient civilisation. There are so many reasons for learning Chinese, so many motivations and rewards, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. This course offers you an excellent start to achieving a basic understanding of the structure...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...business studies and the social sciences. Over time, multiple theories of leadership have been developed, each one retaining influences from the discipline in which it originated. For example, examining the behaviours and traits of individual leaders continues to be an area of study for those drawing on a background of psychology, whereas researchers emerging from a...
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...busy and murmurous American arrivals. One could hardly get at the office window, on account of them, to plead for a room. A dense group of our countrywomen were buying picture-postals of the rather suave office-ladies, and helplessly fawning on them in the inept confidences of American women with all persons in official or servile attendance. "Let me stay here," one of...
Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...business very shattering to the nerves, and she said, "Yes, but it's nothing to a murder case I was on, once." "Oh, what murder, what murder?" we palpitated back; and both of us forgot the steamer, so that it almost ran us down, while our ferrywoman began again: "A man shot a nurse—There! Throw that line, will you?" But he, who ought to have thrown the line for her, in...
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...businesses too, linked to harbours, fish markets and processing facilities…. As our analysis shows, there is very little here to celebrate, and plenty to be worried about for the future of Scotland’s fishing interests’. Such claims from a leading SNP spokesperson were not unexpected, but this could also be read as but the latest stage in the ongoing struggle between...
Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...businesses and community groups, and help raise additional revenue. There is clear amenity value of the Falls to the local community, which was enhanced in 1994 by the acquisition of an additional 15 acres of surrounding woodlands. These are slowly being developed to provide woodland walks and nature trails. Fishing and bird watching are also encouraged, as are field...