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Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...changes and new legislative initiatives. It is important to keep up to date, so get into the habit of regularly checking government and local government policy websites. Make sure that you are familiar with the policy on children’s participation in your own setting, and if you think that this is out of step with current legislation, then make this known and see if you...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...changing the narrative that a non-African was essential in them being successful, most notably Morocco's Walid Regragui. Are we really seeing an ongoing trend or a flash in the pan, and does this really indicate progress for those chasing a coaching career in Africa?...Find out about The Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. On 10th December...
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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...changed, the fundamentals of the business model have not. Clubs must risk money by hiring players in the expectation of success in competition – league and cup – which will in turn attract fans. Successful clubs can grow by improving the quality of their squad and by enlarging their stadium. Unsuccessful teams risk financial failure as revenues fail to match promised...
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OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...paid by you through taxes and/or carbon offsets voluntarily paid for by you but undertaken by others, often projects in developing countries. Decarbonisation is given a separate line in the Summary and deducted from your personal footprint total. You could end up with a negative footprint and can claim to be doing something worthwhile to tackle the climate emergency....
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Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...change over the lifetime of a project. For longer projects this becomes more likely, and may arise from change of staff within the organisation, or even where the strategic priority attached to a project changes so that the sponsor also changes...Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO): 1.3 Communication of governance arrangements - Four principles of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...changes in body structure discovered at post-mortem examination, laboratory medicine sought to explain the structure of the body at the cellular level and to describe its function as a complex series of dynamic processes. Within this medical cosmology, the laboratory usurped the hospital as the locus of research, and the laboratory scientist claimed a greater authority...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...changed and diversified over the last fifty years and how well they have stood up to examination...Attention: 1.1 Introduction - To cover some of the concept of attention (we have only a course, and there are whole books on the subject) I shall follow an approximately historical sequence, showing how generations of psychologists have tackled the issues and gradually...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Why were David Bowie's eyes two different colours?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why were David Bowie's eyes two different colours?

...changes in light, while the right pupil does. So Bowie’s left eye often appeared to be quite dark, due to the blackness of his dilated pupil, when compared to the blue of his right iris. The dilated pupil of his left eye was also potentially more prone to the effect of “red eye”. This sometimes adds to the appearance of a different colour when contrasted to his...
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