The Magazine of The New Curiosity Shop - April 2006

and a 'Happy Easter' to all our readers.

There is a lot of excitement this month at the New Curiosity Shop as we prepare for our first ever Open Week, from the 20th to the 27th May. As far as we know this is the first time there has ever been a virtual Open Week. More details will follow in the next issue of Cloisters, but you can register for the event by visiting our Open Week page.

One of our new courses is 'Italian for the Tourist' and Cloisters has an interview with our Italian tutor, Tamara Tosoni.

We also have a new column starting, all about the New Economy. New Curiosity Shop partner, Arthur Chapman, explains further.

We have a winner of February's Paul's Puzzle: Susan Kavanagh gets a round of applause for her smart thinking. She also gets a free place on the course of her choice. Get your entries in for our new puzzle by 15th June 2006, and you could win a voucher to spend on any of our courses in the catalogue.

- Mark Toner, April 2006

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Cloisters Contents

The New Economics: Arthur Chapman introduces an alternative way of doing business.

Success in On-line Learning: For this issue of Cloisters I’m going to be looking at a book - that’s right a plain old-fashioned, flick-the-pages, smell-the-print book.

Teaching Online: an interview with tutor Tamara Tosoni, who teaches our 'Italian for the Tourist’ course.

Paul's Puzzle We have a new puzzle this month. Get puzzling and win a prize.

New Courses This month we have four new courses starting: two Astronomy ones, a language course and a course on dreams. Brief details are given here.

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New Economics

Over the next six issues of Cloisters (writes Arthur Chapman) we are pleased to present a series of articles on New Economics. Most of us would agree that 'Old Economics’ is not working – for the benefit of most people or the planet. So what alternatives are there? These articles will introduce you to some of the ideas behind New Economics and hopefully get you thinking and talking about viable alternatives.

They are written by Margaret Legum an economist, who studied at Rhodes University and Cambridge, and is now living in South Africa and the UK. Margaret and her late husband, Colin, were banned from their home country, South Africa, in 1962 for speaking out against apartheid. Working as a lecture and journalist on economics she has also written a book on Global Economics – It doe$n’t have to be £ike Thi$, published by Wild Goose Publications, 2003, www.ionabooks.com. It is an excellent read with discussion points at the end of each chapter, and it makes an good follow up to the articles.

Any comments on Margaret's article(s) please send to Arthur at newcurioshop.com.

The first part of the New Economics starts here.

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