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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...Institute of Mental Health, in which they studied children with very-early-onset schizophrenia. And you can see already, in the top, there are areas that are red, or orange, yellow, are places where there’s less grey matter. And, as they follow them over five years, comparing them to age-matched controls, you can see that, particularly in areas like the dorsolateral...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...institutions of the day. She is known to have become a heavy drinker and to have experimented with opium. Worse still, she became convinced she had found a perfect scheme for determining the winners of horse races; she became a gambling addict and ran up huge debts. She even became estranged from her family. In 1852 she was diagnosed with uterine cancer, which progressed...
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Article 15 mins
'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...Institute of Race Relations (Townsend, 2015), that reveals 509 Black and minority individuals have died in suspicious circumstances whilst in state detention since 1991, with most deaths occurring in prison or police custody. As part of Black History Month 2020 I was invited by the OU to give a presentation about my research, which you can view here. Transcript This...
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Video 20 mins
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...institution has a long history of financial crises and departmental disputes, and a high turnover of senior staff. A decision is made to review the structure of the entire organisation. This is implemented by forming a 'structure review group', which consists of the heads of all 14 departments, 4 members from the consultative committee and 3 representatives from service...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...et al., 1999, p. 121). It is further claimed that sixteen children commit suicide in the UK each year as a result of bullying (Marr and Field, 2001). Yet it is only fairly recently that bullying has been recognized as a serious problem and seen as a form of violence against children. There has been a tendency among adults to see it as playing or teasing which occasionally...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
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Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...institutions – the habits of the institution and the habitats that they occupy. Think about: What two primary purposes of education can you identify from the video? What three issues in education can you identify that you see as interesting or important? Do you agree with Sir Ken about the primary purposes and issues for education? Does he accurately portray the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...et provoque l'ire à droite et au FN’. Available at: https://www.france24.com/fr/20170215-emmanuel-macron-algerie-colonisation-crime-humanite-fn-lr-le-pen (Accessed: 7 July 2022). Government of Canada (2019) Statistics on official languages in Canada. Available at:
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs