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

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...out in a very 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...
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...out the blocked drain in the kitchen’ or ‘my role is to ask the difficult questions at meetings’. Here we suggest that, in the context of work with young people, the term is more than simply a statement about who does what; it also says something about the kinds of relationships we form with young people and the values we bring to our work. To help with this...
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...out of doors and my father liked to walk and we did a lot of walking in the woods. When I went to university I did a degree in Biology and Physical Anthropology and then I went on and did a degree in Environmental Studies, because the programme that I chose allowed me essentially to write the programme that I wanted to do and there aren’t many places that will let you...
How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications Earth is a vibrant blue planet, the only place that we can be sure that life exists. As A Perfect Planet shows, a complex and interconnected set of systems operate to form our environment. Every planet except one in the Solar System has a gaseous atmosphere, as do some moons and even some dwarf...
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...out. They will disturb the feeling of the house. Tom Dyckhoff So what are the demands that the house makes on you? Suzanna Wallgren You have to have a certain upkeep. You have to polish the floors. You have to keep it tidy. You have to work on the concrete. It definitely requires maintenance, absolutely. Tom Dyckhoff A lot of windows. A lot of window cleaning must go on...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...out of dominant accounts of twentieth-century United States art...In this free course, Art and the Mexican Revolution, you will explore one of Diego Rivera’s key murals which was commissioned by the Mexican government in the period after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. These monumental public artworks, designed to win over the Mexican peasantry and working-class to...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...out research with children and young people. The course gives an insight into the fundamental rights of children and young people contained in the UNCRC, it provides a framework which can underpin all research with and by children, to help start to formulate research project ideas and consider how to go about carrying them out...Welcome to this free OpenLearn course,...
Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...out of them. Laundry accounts for around one-quarter of the carbon footprint of clothing. Washing less frequently, using larger loads, tumble drying less and following the care label all make a difference to how long a t-shirt will last and could cut the carbon footprint by 7%. Half of the 120 million t-shirts that are no longer wanted in the UK each year go on to be...