1,710 search results

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...de Bruyne alone earning £280,000 a week. Manchester City have also benefitted from the sale of clubs to wealthy, overseas investors, in this case the Abu Dhabi United Group owned by Sheikh Mansoor. This is in part due to the attractiveness of the Premier League and the benefits it can bring owners. In 2019 it does seem that football is now a super-rich sport, played by...
This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...de facto city status – maybe one day a future competition will make this happen. Further reading and about the author Beckett, J., (2014), ‘Inventing and reinventing the modern city: the 2012 city status competition in the United Kingdom’, Urban History, vol. 41, no.4, pp.705-720 Tuan, Y., (1974), Topophilia, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall Inc. Dr...
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...de Sus, M. (June, 2022) ‘The Shift Directives: From Financialized to Human-rights Based Housing’, Make the Shift Report. Available at: https://make-the-shift.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Directives-Updated-Dec-9.pdf (Accessed: 24 December 2023). Joseph Rowntree Foundation. (2024) ‘Designing out hardship and destitution’. Available at:
The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health

...de Janeiro five years prior. Despite a few mishaps during qualification, Biles advanced to several finals. During the team final on 27 July 2021, Biles hesitated on her vault mid-air and subsequently left the competition floor before returning shortly after. She later withdrew from the remainder of the team final due to mental health issues, saying she didn’t want to...
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...education, health, everything in fact from neighbour disputes to war." 11 UK prime ministers have had legal qualifications, most recently Tony Blair, and many world leaders are lawyers, including Barack Obama. Other law graduates include Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Derren Brown, Gabby Logan, and Gerard Butler. Law changes organically in line with social needs. Today areas of...
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...Education, Childhood & Youth...Professional relationships with young people: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the importance of developing positive professional relationships with young people recognise the qualities and attitudes which support the development of professional and helping relationships describe what a...
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...education...This free course, Assessment in secondary mathematics, will identify and explore some of the key issues around assessing mathematics in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your assessment practice as a mathematics teacher and develop a greater awareness of the implications of assessment...
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...education, including in 1935 his PhD in Mathematics and Physics, but as a Jew he was unable to obtain work; he lived with his parents on their savings. Although born in Berlin, his father came from Romania and his mother from Poland. He grew up with Romanian citizenship, was naturalized as a German citizen in 1932, but lost this citizenship again in 1935, under new laws...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs