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Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?

...world-class youth development system which consistently produces better quality home grown players. The plan provides additional time for players to practice, better standards of coaching, higher standards of medical and welfare support and continued access to high quality education. Each professional football club’s academy is regularly audited and placed into one of...
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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

...World Cup. Manchester City won the 1969 FA Cup with a team of eleven English players and an English manager. In 2019 the League Cup winning team featured just two Englishmen and was managed by former Spanish international, Pep Guardiola. Table 1 shows the nationalities of the players of the two successful teams and highlights the global composition of Manchester City’s...
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The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...World Emoji Day on 17 July, but with communications technology developing so rapidly, what’s likely to be the future for this colourful cast of characters? Philip Seargeant – Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics – explores the possibilities...Find out more about The Open University's Language Studies qualification. Emojis are a product of the digital...
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Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...world example. Activity: What makes a place unique? To begin, think about the area where you live, or another which you know well. What makes it unique? It will be made up of a combination of elements, old and new, representing changes that have taken place both locally and in wider society. Try to identify some of these different aspects which combine in a distinctive...
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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...world’s press picked up on the macabre detail that one of the alleged killers was wearing a T-shirt with ‘LOL’ printed across it. There was something chillingly incongruous about the word in this context – both because of its literal meaning, as well as its associations with informal modern culture. ‘LOL’ is an initialism – an abbreviation made from the...
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The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...world economy has generally. In an era of ecological crises, the least that is demanded from us is that we shape economies in a way that respects the real, non-negotiable restraints of the earth (Figure 1). [The figure shows why the Good Friday Agreement must take into account our planetary responsibilities. It shows us exceeding safe operating space in land-system...
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Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...world...Find out more about The Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses Accessing face-to-face counselling can be difficult.However, many people have been found a different kind of therapy very valuable: Walking Therapy. You may also like to listen to our podcast here. Two things come to mind when we think of walking and outdoors: both are immensely beneficial for...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...world is dying. We live in an age where it is necessary to increase awareness and act on issues rapidly. Yet it is deemed inappropriate to generate awareness of fundamental problems in production because to do so would be deemed too political. It is difficult to see what makes raising awareness of scandalous production models political, other than seeing that politics has...
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