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Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...Public Accounts Committee over tax avoidance. In order to counter the negative publicity, Starbucks plans to change its arrangements and pay UK corporation tax while Google has just made such a settlement. Calls for more ethically produced and sustainable products is a similar reaction to the perception that big business behaves badly. The Institute of Business Ethics is...
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Legitimate or illegitimate: Fracking
Society, Politics & Law

Legitimate or illegitimate: Fracking

...down gas prices. Opponents point to environmental and health concerns: small earth tremors, high water requirements, and possible water and chemical contaminations. The debate on the real need for shale gas is ongoing. So, what is your opinion on fracking? Take part in our interactive tool 'Shades of grey - legitimate or illegitimate?' to explore this case further....
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Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...public conversation about energy. Our goal is to try to remind society of the fact that humanity’s relationship with energy has always been changing, it’s always been very dynamic, and so we’re just trying to loosen up the public imagination about energy in the present, which has got rather static around the theme of fossil fuels. And then of course I am keeping...
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Home education collection
Education & Development

Home education collection

...public attention during periods of pandemic disrupted schooling and online learning because of national lockdowns between 2020-2021. Yet anecdotally the practice of educating children and young people outside of mainstream education has been steadily increasing for several years prior to 2020. While the study of home education around the world has also expanded over the...
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Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit
Money & Business

Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit

...public bodies, businesses, and other organisations share their journeys towards new ways of working, alongside expert voices in sustainability and futures planning. Hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg. | Also available in Welsh. Free online courses Articles and activities Read more about the collection The collection hears from those in higher education institutions (HEIs), public...
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Environmental responsibility
Nature & Environment

Environmental responsibility

...public. Conversation on creative climate with Joe Smith and Martin Reynolds - part 2 Part 2 of 2 -Discussion exploring the value of an Open University initiative – in partnership with the BBC – called Creative Climate, providing space over 10 years (2010–2020) for constructive conversation on climate change amongst and between experts and lay public. Debate on...
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Brexit: an economic strategy from the left?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: an economic strategy from the left?

...public more power to scrutinise secretive international trade deals like TTIP?] Will Brexit give the public more power to scrutinise secretive international trade deals like TTIP? From state aid rules and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to VAT on women’s sanitary products, a range of arguments have been presented as reasons for why Brexit can...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...public services swept Europe, causing deep concern in Emilia-Romagna about the quality of public caregiving, write Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty in The Resilient Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady State Economy. “The vision that emerged was of care organizations actively supported and governed by the stakeholders—that is, the users of services, the...
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