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The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...simple explanation. [A photograph of Alex Scott and Kelly Smith with Pedro Martinez Losa.] Figure 9 Arsenal players Alex Scott and Kelly Smith with manager Pedro Martinez Losa after winning the FA Cup in 2016...Week 2: The secrets of motivation and teams: 6 What factors work in your environment? - You’ll now move from football teams to look at what works in your own...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...simple enough, but it is a word bedevilled by controversy and interpretation. Sustainable is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘capable of being maintained or continued at a certain rate or level’. But sustainability first entered everyday speech as recently as 1965 just at the point when it was becoming apparent that modern life was unsustainable....
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...simple rule, evolved long before the emergence of human language. Although these two factors (food availability and the avoidance of predators) influence the upper limit on group size in a particular environment, it is the rich diversity of internal relationships within anthropoid groups that is fascinating and has led to many studies of primates...Studying mammals: The...
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...simple. It’s got two premises and a conclusion. The first premise is that there’s nothing wrong with sexual preferences for things like hair colour or eye colour or these physical - merely physical traits. And that’s the first premise. Then the second premise is that there’s no difference between racialised physical traits and nonracial physical traits. They’re...
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...simple phrase to help you remember their imperfect form. Activity 23 Using the expressions in Box 5, write five sentences about yourself, or say them aloud if you prefer. Make sure you adapt what Yvonne Zehner said, when describing yourself. Compare your sentences with this spoken version. You can see that it uses some of the language you have just been working with, but...
Intermediate French: Holiday plans
Languages

Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...simple listening exercises. The benefit of this is that it accustoms your ear to French sounds – without too much stress. The same can be done with the radio. If you are about to go on a car journey, do the ironing or the washing-up, use this ‘low-grade’ time to listen to French radio*. Don't worry if you don't understand everything: the point of the exercise is...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...simple nest, she lays between two and five eggs. It will take them nearly a month to hatch. She shoulders the burden of all the incubating. But while she sits, her mate stands guard. Though nesting on islands keeps wolves and foxes at bay, there are other dangers - ravens. When the first clutches hatch, a few addled eggs are left in the abandoned nests. These attract...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...simple definition in these terms would be ‘the scholarly study of music’. Traditionally, musicology has borrowed from ‘art history for its historiographic paradigms and literary studies for its paleographic and philological principles’ (Treitler, 1995). A committee of the American Musicological Society (AMS) in 1955 also defined musicology as ‘a field of...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs