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Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...Economic Forum article ‘17 ways technology could change the world by 2025’ written in June 2020, during the global COVID-19 pandemic, provides insights into the technology we may already need to understand and engage with, in both our personal and professional lives (World Economic Fourm, 2020). The unintended benefits to the environment during lockdown during the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...economic exploitation Protection 12 Right to express views and have them taken seriously Participation 14 Right to freedom of religion Participation 19 Protection from abuse and neglect Protection 34 Protection from sexual exploitation Protection 13 Right to information Participation The UNCRC is the most ratified convention in the history of the United Nations,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...economic and engineering information with risk-related information. So what is risk? It is a word of such common usage that we all know its meaning. Activity 1 Before continuing, write down your definition of risk. Risk is … By writing your definition now you will be able to refer back to see whether your perception changes as you progress through this unit. We will...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...economically worthwhile. The need to remove very large amounts of very hard igneous rocks means that porphyry ore deposits weren’t mined at all until 1905, when powered shovels and rail transport for the unprocessed ore made them viable. Figure 2.13 shows the Bingham Canyon open pit mine in Utah – you certainly wouldn’t have wanted to dig such a big hole with only...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...economic efficiency while improving the overall quality of life” – have created important increases in the understanding of infrastructure usage, improved efficiency, and better service provision to citizens. That said, the emergence of smart cities – and the installation and utilization of vast networks of sensors and data collection platforms – have also vastly...
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Article 10 mins
New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?
Society, Politics & Law

New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?

...economic issues. Then he compounded his error by challenging Clinton’s qualifications to serve as president. Whatever one might think of Hillary Clinton, her service as Secretary of State and as a two-term U.S. Senator makes her as well qualified for the presidency as anyone in the race. Belatedly Sanders backtracked, declaring that “of course” Clinton was qualified...
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A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...economic nationalists worldwide. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, which is busy purging pro-E.U. “liberal élites” from national institutions and mainstreaming homophobia and anti-Semitism, would be thrilled by Rousseau’s warnings about the “cosmopolitans who go on distant bookish quests for the duties which they disdain to fulfill in their own...
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Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?
Society, Politics & Law

Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?

...Economic Forum in Davos in January, it was estimated that the eight richest individuals in the World (all men incidentally) were worth a total of $426bn (£350bn), equivalent to the wealth of 3.6 billion people. Bill Gates, for example, has personal wealth of $87 billion. Meanwhile, people in dire poverty have to beg for the price of a cup of tea. There is a strong moral...
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