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Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...Researching the political economy of the international system and the process of ‘globalization’. Course image: katie wheeler in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence. The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources...
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...research/ Ofekun, S. (2024). NFF under scrutiny again after allegations of financial mismanagement and corruption. In Score Nigeria. Score Nigeria. https://scorenigeria.com.ng/nff-under-scrutiny-again-after-allegations-of-financial-mismanagement-and-corruption/ Okeleji, O. (2019, May 29). Nigeria Football Federation boss Amaju Pinnick ordered to appear in court. BBC Sport...
Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...research and develop your arguments for and against nuclear energy. You should spend approximately one hour searching online, and approximately one hour compiling your arguments. Your argument should take the form of a debate on the pros and cons of nuclear energy. You should tackle this at a generic level, not in terms of specific sites or proposals. I will come back to...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...researchers are investigating inflation...Unsolved problems in cosmology: 1 Cosmology today - Modern cosmology is based on the understanding that the Universe began in an event called the hot big bang, in which time and space were created, about 13.8 billion years ago. The Universe has cooled and space has expanded as time has progressed since then. The evidence for this...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...researchers this is not the same as human language which is essentially infinite in its meaning (largely due to its grammar), and which is able to associate specific (and abstract) meanings with arbitrary sound and symbols. Indeed, language is the thing that makes us uniquely human (or so the argument goes), and no other species comes close to emulating our ability to...
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...research for nearly a century. Miniaturisation, low power consumption and computational load are also drivers of innovation, as can be seen with increasingly powerful and smaller mobile phones that last longer and longer between charges...An introduction to electronics: 4.2 Recording sounds - Interactive 1 will allow you to see what ‘real’ sounds that you make...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...researcher Ikuo Kashiwakura of Hirosaki University, Japan, and colleagues responded immediately to the disaster, travelling south to Fukushima prefecture to measure radiation levels in more than 5000 people there between 15 March and 20 June. They found just 10 people with unusually high levels of radiation, but those levels were still below the threshold at which acute...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...research topics because I’ve been spending years and years reading and writing in English and so if I have to explain these things in French now I don’t have the, I mean, I don’t have the proper flow, the proper rhythm and the academic language as it should be used by an academic. So this is one other aspect. It’s not directly an effect of what we’ve been doing...
Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs