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The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...et al., 2016), and can be explained by the use of a lower case and capital letter: Small ‘p’ politics refers to any form of social organisation where matters are concerned with getting or using power within a particular group e.g., there is plenty of ‘office’ politics within, and often between, sports organisations. Big ‘P’ Politics often focuses on...
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...adapted from Crouhy et al., 2005, p. 2) Figure 2 The risk management process...Understanding and managing risk: Stage 1: Identify risk exposures - There is no single or definitive way to subdivide risk. The key point, however, is to ensure that the categorisation chosen covers each type of risk and is understood by all those using the results. The process should be...
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...adapted extract from the Open University course T878 Capacities for managing development...Discovering development management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: write a working definition of development management apply the complexity, emergence, difference (CoDE) framework to selected cases of development management develop some...
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...et des couleurs, on ne discute pas’ (‘each to their own’). Whilst this expression suggests that we should never quibble over colours, chromatic terms can nonetheless provide a rich source of discussion for language learners who want to extend their knowledge of idiomatic expressions in the target language. Indeed, there are many descriptions and metaphorical...
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...adapted)) © Copyright © East Midlands Football (adapted) (a) How many goals did Liverpool score at home and how many did they score away? (b) Which team scored the most goals away from their home ground? (c) Which was the worst team defensively away from their home gound, i.e. the team with the highest number of goals scored against them when playing away? (d) Suggest...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...adapted extract from the course L196 Croeso: beginners' Welsh, which is currently out of presentation. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Course image: Geraint Rowland in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...ete/. The French word très is transcribed /tʀɛ/. [Described image] Figure 3 IPA in French The International Phonetic Alphabet is a useful tool, but it is complex – even for seasoned linguists. The good news is that as a beginner, you will absolutely not be expected to memorise it, or even use it at all if you don’t want to. But it’s useful to know about it, and...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...et Biophysica Acta, vol. 1812, no. 2, pp. 220–30 [Online]. Available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3005102/ (Accessed 19 April 2018)...Week 1: Histology: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by David Male. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons...