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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...Economics and author and cartoonist from The Guardian, Martin Rowson. Amanda, I don't know whether you noticed but when I just sort of mentioned that business about dirt under fingernails and particularly got the little tiny bit about the possibility of dirt being on these lovely clean looking seats in the Wellcome there was a little frisson ran around the audience, what...
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The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...economically and the ship-building skills and political militancy of Clydeside workers were as obsolete as the tenements in which they lived. In the 1960s Glasgow went in for 'comprehensive redevelopment', as the planners called it. What that meant was comprehensive destruction of the tenement city -starting with -guess where? -the Gorbals, the location for the violent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...economic climate, potential market, legislation). There are commonly used acronyms to help categorise these external factors. PESTLE stands for political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental. STEEP is a rearranged form, which includes legal factors under political, and a shortened form is known as PEST (or STEP), which stands for political,...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...economic status and their self-interest at home, so I’m not sure what can be really done about that in terms of how people continue to keep the environment high on the agenda when there is other pressing political issues out there. It’s always very difficult, I think, to make that connection between the environment and biodiversity and people, people’s wellbeing. So...
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The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...economic wellbeing of the community and later led to the successful campaign to establish the Cariocca Enterprise Parks. However, the WIOCC was also established with the broader aim of promoting the social and cultural life of its members. They had a strong emphasis on provision for young people – organising play schemes, skills training and a Saturday Supplementary...
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Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...economic expansion. Captives were often taken from conquered nations as booty in wars, and subsequently deprived of their freedom and forced into labour. For example, ‘The city of Rome contained a slave population of nearly 40% in the 1st century CE’ (Weissbrodt, 2007). The slave in the Roman Empire had no legal status as a person. They were treated as chattels and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...economic circumstances or are kept back after failing examinations. ‘Primary’ children also do a considerable amount of learning when they are not in school, as they play at home and watch and listen to others in their communities. Basic education covers the primary age phase but can apply to learners of any age and aims to provide literacy and numeracy skills for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...Economic Future of Jobs Report (WEF, 2016) highlights critical thinking as tomorrow’s key job skill, a point further underlined by Hess (2017) when he argues that in a world where technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly important: Many experts believe that human beings will still be needed to do the jobs that require higher order critical, creative,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs