Face the Facts - John Waite
John Waite presents Radio 4’s award-winning investigative journalism programme Face The Facts, which has been a fixture in the Radio 4 schedules for 16 years and for which John has won 3 Sony Radio Awards as either Reporter or Broadcaster of the year. He also co-presents Radio 4’s daily consumer affairs programme You and Yours.
Directing the Royal Shakespeare Company - Vikki Heywood
Vikki Heywood is the Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company based in Stratford Upon Avon. She is responsible for 20 productions each year, 700 staff and an annual budget of 30 million pounds. The RSC is also deep into a rebuilding project in Stratford.
In this Coventry Conversation Vikki discusses life at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
This talk is also available to watch on CUTV
Editing the Coventry Telegraph - Darren Parkin
Darren moved to the Midlands in 1993 as Chief Reporter on the Solihull Times and later Birmingham Metro News, winning the UK Press Gazette Young Journalist of the Year three years in succession.
He became the country’s youngest newspaper editor at the age of 24, editing the News of Wolverhampton. He was appointed editor of the Coventry Telegraph in November 2009.
Oiling the wheels of productivity
The performance and efficiency of the world's national oil companies - i.e. those still wholly under government ownership - could be increased very dramatically by privatising them, new research finds. The results of such performance improvements would be staggering, explains Dr Michael Pollitt, and could see global oil and gas production in the first year alone increase by 2.7 million barrels of oil equivalent per day - which is more than all of France's current oil and gas consumption.
Cells biology
Parts of the Cell
Martin Luther King Day Celebration - José Huizar, Princeton University Trustee: "Keynote Address" â
The theme of this year's program is immigration, a hotly debated topic today that is relevant to King given his concern for humanity. The keynote address will be delivered by José Huizar, a Princeton trustee and graduate alumnus who is the first Latino immigrant to serve as a member of the Los Angeles City Council.
The event will include the presentation of awards to essay, poster and video contest winners in grades 4 through 12 from area schools, who submitted entries reflecting their views o
Alexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature: "'Because It Was He, Because
The President’s Lecture Series was established by President Shirley M. Tilghman in the fall of 2001 to give Princeton’s faculty an opportunity to learn about the work of their colleagues in other disciplines and to share their research with the University community. First proposed by Alan B. Krueger, the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1976, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor in Economics and Public Policy, the lectures are presented three times a year and are open to the public.
iCase Influenza Outbreak
Link to iCases software and Influenza Outbreak. This resource provides 10 - 15hrs learning for second year bioscientists. It presents a realistic problem-based scenario. Supporting materials are also available from JorumOpen. Contact weblearn@medsci.ox.ac.uk for further information.
Develop and monitor employment plans
A set of activities that simulate developing, implementing and
monitoring an employment plan for a 48 year old man who worked as a painter until 6
months ago when he injured himself at home. He is now unable to work as a painter
and other employment options need to be explored.
Principles of money and banking: reading list
This is the reading list for a final year economics course in money and banking or a postgraduate course in Money and Banking by Kent Matthews of Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.
The Microfoundations of Money Part 2: lecture slides
These PowerPoint slides relate to a 20 hour lecture course on Money and Banking for final year economics and postgraduate students of banking delivered by Kent Matthews of Cardiff University.
The Microfoundations of the Demand for Money Part 2: lecture slides
These PowerPoint slides relate to a 20 hour lecture course on Money and Banking for final year economics and postgraduate students of banking delivered by Kent Matthews of Cardiff University.
The Credit Channel
These PowerPoint slides relate to a 20 hour lecture course on Money and Banking for final year economics and postgraduate students of banking delivered by Kent Matthews of Cardiff University.
Efficient Markets Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence
These lecture Notes are from a Year 2 economics module on Money, Banking and Finance, delivered by Andros Gregoriou of the University of East Anglia.
Efficient markets: seminar notes
Seminar notes for a year 2 Money, Banking and Finance economics module delivered by Andros Gregoriou of the University of East Anglia.
IS-LM: seminar solutions
Seminar notes for a year 2 Money, Banking and Finance economics module delivered by Andros Gregoriou of the University of East Anglia.
Particle technology : hindered systems and thickening
This is a video of the third lecture in the module Particle Technology, delivered to second year students who have already studied basic fluid mechanics. Hindered systems is mainly about sedimentation of concentrated suspensions. The way concentrated dispersions behave is also covered: buoyancy correction and viscosity for Newtonian suspensions. Industrial thickener design is included, based on incompressible settling behaviour.
This material is suitable for HND, BSc, BEng, MEng, and MSc leve
Particle technology : fluid flow in porous media
This is a video of the fourth lecture in the module Particle Technology, delivered to second year students who have already studied basic fluid mechanics. Fluid flow in porous media covers the basic streamline and turbulent flow models for pressure drop as a function of flow rate within the media. The Modified Reynolds number determines the degree of turbulence in the fluid. The industrial processes of deep bed (sand) filtration and fluidisation are included.
This material is suitable for HND
Worksheets for Problem Based Learning Tasks in Microeconomics: Cost and Revenue
This worksheet introduces PBL (Problem Based Learning) to the first-year economics curriculum at the University of Ulster. It is made available as a Word document.
Problem Based Learning tasks in Economic Growth: convergence hypothesis theory
Student handout outlining a PBL (Problem Based Learning) task on a final year course on economic growth and understanding convergence hypothesis theory.
