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This Sporting Planet
Society, Politics & Law

This Sporting Planet

...Business Ed Warner is a city businessman who became part-time, non-executive chair of UK Athletics in 2007 and has had a pivotal role in preparing UK Athletics in the run up to the 2012 Olympics. His appointment highlights the links between commerce and sport. Governing Global Sport Sunder Katwala is General Secretary of the Fabian Society and writes extensively on...
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What is the zika virus?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the zika virus?

...business leaders and Brazil's President Dilma discuss action to combat the virus zika at the Planalto Palace, Brasilia, Brazil 08/12/2015] Local business leaders and President Dilma discuss measures designed to combat the spread of the zika virus at the Planalto Palace, Brasilia in December 2015 Turning point The warning bells began to sound quietly in 2007. Although,...
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Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result
Society, Politics & Law

Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result

...businesses in Europe often pay less tax than small- and medium-sized businesses. That’s because governments do deals that will lead to favourable conditions for their own national industry. That’s without even considering that the European Commission has a president who, as prime minister of Luxembourg, signed deals with multinational corporations that allowed them to...
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Language is collateral damage in the gig economy
Languages

Language is collateral damage in the gig economy

...business world – euphemistic terms such as ‘downsizing’ ‘rightsizing’ and ‘restructuring’ may not sound as ruthless as ‘cutting jobs’ but they spell trouble for employees nonetheless. Such language practices are not restricted to business. Words such as ‘collateral damage’ and ‘rendition’ have been coined or purloined to obscure far more brutal...
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How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?
Money & Business

How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?

...businesses. Bhargav Mitra and Robert McCausland explain why...[Statue of a human form spraying water] Leaking identity data can cost companies Google might be in trouble for collecting the personal data of its users, but many companies have a growing incentive to rid their hands of the data that users entrust them with. This is because of growing costs of holding onto it....
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Black History Month 2021 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2021 talks

...business, Project Ace Sports, which she started in November 2017. The company provides different sporting opportunities for children and young people to get involved in. Allana is a now a full time Diversity Lead and Sports Teacher at a prep school in South London. [Unknown title] Transcript Early Ethnic Minority barristers and the Inns of Court Dr Caroline Derry and Dr...
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Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...business practices, workplace organisation or external relations. Open source software is organised very differently from conventional software development and has become an important source of software such as the Linux and Android operating systems and a wide range of applications (including the Firefox browser and Zotero reference management system). The OECD...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...business process, which is packaged as a reusable software component that is: well-defined – a software component with a clearly specified interface and outcome self-contained – the implementation of the service is complete and independent of any product, vendor or technology a black-box – the implementation of the service is hidden (encapsulated) from the service...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs