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What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...English. ...Find out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications. There is a long-standing tradition of making French a viable language of its own. Already in 1549, Joachim du Bellay wrote a treatise explaining, amongst other things, that translations from other languages should be curtailed because France didn’t need imports. Instead, French...
Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony
History & The Arts

Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony

...English-speaking market, presenting the tunes alone or giving them English words. To present them with their original Welsh words was to insist on the significance of the culture of the common people of Wales – in Welsh, the 'gwerin'. The book also broke new ground as the first published example of collecting Welsh traditional songs ‘in the field’ from living,...
Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?
History & The Arts

Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?

...English Heritage Blue Plaque Commemorating Bertrand Russell]English Heritage Blue Plaque Commemorating Bertrand Russell. But ideas about what constitutes British heritage have altered radically between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twenty-first. So much so that schemes like this have become sites for conflicting ideas about what...
OpenLearn Cymru
OpenLearn Cymru Wales

OpenLearn Cymru

Dysgu gydol oes, ar gyfer gwaith, am ddim. Cartref dysgu dwyieithog am ddim yng Nghymru. See OpenLearn Wales for English language content.
Why are people superstitious?
History & The Arts

Why are people superstitious?

...Everyday superstitions are widespread, with surveys regularly finding at least a quarter of the UK population being actively superstitious. Often, they take the form of harmless habits. But it’s worth considering what superstitions are and how they come about. As we will see, they rely on a magical view of reality that can lead to poor decisions, misunderstanding and...
Religion, Belief and Equalities
History & The Arts

Religion, Belief and Equalities

...everyday life, it is important that you understand the significance of religion and belief as a protected characteristic in the United Kingdom. This video introduces why understanding religion and belief is important for equalities law, some of the complexities that arise when religion and belief seem to "clash" with other rights, and how the term “worldviews” can...
Broken Pipeline for Black Coaches in World Football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Broken Pipeline for Black Coaches in World Football

...in Sports Coaching (first edition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367854287. Diversity in English professional football 2022: https://www.statista.com/aboutus/our-research-commitment. Duffey, D.E (2018), It's No Secret, it's Racism. Szymanski, S (2023), Black Representation in English Professional Football: A Statistical Analysis: https://shorturl.at/xkIYi....
Skills for study
Education & Development

Skills for study

...English? Check your language skills... Even if you are confident in using English as a second language, studying in English at higher education level can present extra challenges - try this course first to reflect on and assess your skills and identify any language areas you might want to improve. What skills do you want to work on? Reading and finding information If...