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Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...public way in the US Senate when Ireland was labelled a “tax haven” in 2013. Red faces and many a denial followed. Now, if Apple is slapped with a multi-billion euro Irish tax bill by the European Commission – which is reportedly going to happen tomorrow morning – then the international backlash and consequences could be harder to smooth over. It is for this...
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Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...public sector has to demonstrate that it is using the public’s funds wisely, and the not-for-profit sector needs to demonstrate its financial probity to its governors and trustees and possibly to the appropriate regulators. In the following subsections, you will learn how to use and interpret the results from some basic financial appraisal tools...Financial methods in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...public may not be aware of the number of incidents because almost three-quarters (72%), on average, of the insider incidents are handled internally without legal action or the involvement of law enforcement’ (CERT Insider Threat Center, 2010). The estimate of 1,000 attacks per hour is based on the BIS Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2014. We took the number of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...health. In 2000, the State Council published a notice, joined by the Ministry of Culture and another seven administrative departments, decreeing the prohibition of manufacturing and selling game consoles in mainland China, claiming it “seriously jeopardizes young people and disturbs the social order.” This is an excerpt from the notice:
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...publicity and alarm amongst owners of neighbouring properties. These owners could often be relied upon to bail out quickly, allowing the blockbuster to acquire their properties cheaply; these, too, would be rented to black families. With a relatively poor section of society being asked to pay relatively high rents, the consequence was a sardine-can like squeezing of...
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Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...Health and Wellbeing courses. Population ageing is a rising trend globally, with declining fertility rates and an increase in life expectancy. The UN estimates there have never been more aged people in the world than today. This means it is increasingly important that ageing well is given priority. What is ageing [A very elderly lady, full face shot showing lots of...
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Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...public was Blue Planet. Blue Planet rewrote the rules of a lot of things; it came along at a bit of dangerous time for wildlife. The previous 10 years from, say, 1993 to about 2000, the public had almost been OD’d on wildlife, there was a huge explosion of channels and satellite and things in the early nineties and all these new broadcasters went into wildlife with a...
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Week 1 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 1 Civilisations: The debate

...public debate about the arts. Gill and I have also contributed by making a Civilisations poster, which you can order for free (and teachers and parents are encouraged to order one for classrooms!) Luckily we've also been able to use some of the footage shot for Civilisations on the third-level module which overlaps with it, A344, Art and its Global Histories. Students on...
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