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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...health’ of grassroots is important because a large participation base from youth level upwards increases competition and raises the standards at the elite level – producing the next superstars that will drive the sport’s popularity. So what is it like for women’s cricket teams down at the grassroots? Tales from the grassroots [A cartoon of a woman playing cricket]...
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Article 10 mins
Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...health and social care) recognise children are not making a choice to be involved in these criminal activities. Children will push boundaries and experiment, but this developmental behaviour of adolescence and an age-appropriate response to risk and increasing need for autonomy does not mean they consent to act criminally. Who is being exploited? From children...
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Video 5 mins
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...public artworks, designed to win over the Mexican peasantry and working-class to the new post-revolutionary state, brought Mexican mural artists international acclaim and Rivera was subsequently awarded important commissions in the United States. Yet, due to his commitment to a figurative form of propaganda, Rivera’s reputation suffered during the Cold War period and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...public sectors of the economy. In fact, it applies to all organisations, whatever their nature and form. An organisation without the necessary understanding of its cost structure and cost control is rather like a rudderless ship, lacking clear direction and at risk of breaking up when it meets the shore. Costs are shown in external financial statements (such as the income...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...health and medical expenditure in 1992 ($ million)? total land area of the Japanese mainland (sq km)? Question 4 A rare disease has swept through a town and has affected 600 inhabitants. Experts have suggested two possible programmes for tackling the disease. Look at the two versions of this problem below. What do you notice about Versions 1 and 2? In each version, which...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...public. This track may be from a completely different source with a quite different sound, in which case the mastering engineer would have to adjust the sound to make it compatible with the existing material. In other scenarios an album may be compiled from many separate recordings. As you will see from this digital booklet, the producer, recording engineers, musicians...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...public arena, and I felt a duty to provide a forum for people who would otherwise be more or less ignored. RH: Are you a kind of natural contrarian – BP: I guess there is something in me – RH: It’s something that you want to push back against a consensus – BP: Yes, in a way I am a natural contrarian, but on the other hand I am also someone who wants to have a...
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Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...health and depression identify the role of stress in burnout. First you will look at how sport and training can have negative effects on athletes as in the case of Jonathan Trott who suffered burnout through prolonged stress and imbalance between training, competition and limited downtime. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs