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The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...geography of power. In the last half century FIFA and the world of football have been transformed by the globalisation of television and economic and political power. To understand the origins of FIFA's current malaise we start in Paris in 1904 where representatives of seven European Football Associations founded the organisation. The British, although implored to join,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...geography and so on. Some contexts are quite detailed. This course has hinted at a few of them: the representation of Ajax and Achilles on vase paintings, the use of coins to project the image of Greek rulers, the layout of ancient Athens, the nature of writing in the ancient world, and the practice of ostracism. All aspects of Greek life are potentially relevant for a...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...geographies or bids in auctions. In the case of cartels, there are verbal agreements, contracts or other strategies to maintain firms working through the same conditions, because a firm can gain extra profit by defecting whilst the other participants in the cartel maintain their agreed behaviour. For example, if oligopolists decide to restrict output to increase prices...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...Geography (5.3.8), he praised the Romans for three major achievements which enhanced ‘the blessings with which nature supplies the city’ of Rome: creating roads, aqueducts, and building sewers ‘to wash away the filth of the city into the river Tiber’. Indeed, he added, the sewers in Rome are so large that wagons loaded with hay can drive along them. [Roman...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...geography of their choice’ (Choudhury, 2022) and some companies such as AirBNB and GitLab have announced they will support this. However, companies and their employees will need to investigate a range of requirements including any tax implications of being employed by a company in one country and working in another; often it can trigger payments of social security...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...geography could include the following words: globalisation, urban and rural, spit, glacier, soil erosion, deforestation. How does your school help with literacy in the secondary curriculum? What words are linked to a secondary school subject that are different from everyday use? Your answer will be dependent on your setting, and on whether your school has a policy in...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...geography where data from large populations are analysed. In some cases, for sample data, the mean is not the most appropriate average, so you will learn about alternatives. However, the mean will still be important when you are calculating the sample standard deviation. Before exploring averages though, you’ll consider in more detail ways that data can be distributed....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...geography of the local area. [Described image] Figure 3 Pearly Kings and Queens, chosen by each borough to help raise funds for charity, are a colourful tradition in working-class London Activity 17 Below is some Cockney rhyming slang. See if you can guess the missing elements and type them into the spaces below. The first two have been done for you. 1. Hampstead (Heath)...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs