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

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...working to make our detection of hoax and satirical stories more accurate as part of our continued effort to make the product better. So: Blame the people, not the algorithm, which is apparently the same one Facebook was using before it fired the original trending team. Who are these new gatekeepers, and why can’t they tell the difference between a reliable news source...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...work in sport. This will create a virtuous circle, where a more diverse workforce contributes to a more sustainable pipeline of women leaders to draw from in the future. All of which can help drive much needed change for women and girls in sport. Diversity at board level, in leadership and among the coaching pool is important in growing women’s participation in sport...
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Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...work on the Practical View. Before looking more closely at this text, however, we set the scene with reference to the state of British religion, politics and society in the aftermath of the French Revolution...Wilberforce: 2 Britain and the French Revolution - In Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Edmund Burke (1729–97) made clear his hostile reaction to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...working out calculations by hand or mentally. The danger, of course, is that you may use a calculator without understanding what an answer means or how it relates to the numbers that have been used. For example, if you calculate that 10% of £90 is £900 (which can easily happen if either you forget to press the per-cent key or it is not pressed hard enough), you should...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...work out if this connectedness is a good thing or a bad thing. Or, should we be indifferent about the internet of everything? What is clear from media coverage is that the internet of everything has already been associated with global security scares, while for many it is the cool technological must-have. So, what it is and why should I care? You may not yet have a smart...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...workings of a policy-making committee. However revealing an experience, such events very often the public as a largely passive recipient of information. This course looks at more active forms of involvement by the public; how is the public voice heard and understood? What is public involvement of this type for and is the outcome in some way ‘better’ than traditional...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...works on the effect of genre and how genre can be used. The main teaching material in this course is taken from an existing publication, The Fiction Writer's Workshop by Josip Novakovich (1995). Novakovich is an award-winning writer (of short stories mainly), who teaches fiction writing at the University of Cincinnati. His chapters on ‘Character’ and ‘Setting’ are...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Rugby tackles homophobia
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby tackles homophobia

...works to eliminate homophobia through his StandUp Foundation. Guinness appear to be using their brand to tell stories of adversity and ‘double lives’ in rugby, as can also be seen in Ashwin Willemse’s story of becoming a Springbok. But overall, the sub culture of rugby seems to be raising awareness of gay issues and seems to be making a big effort to challenge...
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