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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...become bankrupt en masse. In 1983 another report by Chester suggested that without fundamental reform English football might collapse. (Many people believe that the turning point in English football, following 50 years of post-war decline, came after the Hillsborough disaster and the Taylor Report of 1989, which mandated all-seater stadiums and triggered an investment...
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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...become sending states, following the Great Recession in 2008, i.e. Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain and looked in particular at Latin Americans and Eastern Europeans as the ‘New Europeans’ most likely to exercise their newly acquired right of onward migration to the UK. Looking at the breakdown of these ‘New Europeans’ in 2013, 30,200 Moroccans, 38,900 Colombians...
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Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...becomes very relevant when starting to look at that major function of life – your career. Resilience is a characteristic that we all demonstrate to different degrees. In the next activity, you’ll start to consider times in your life when you’ve had to draw on your resilience. Activity 2 Drawing on resilience Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Take some time now to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...become depressed teenagers? The role of social evaluative threat and reward processing’, Psychological Medicine, vol. 42, no. 10, pp. 2095-107. Strudwick, P. (2010) ‘Treating anxiety with the Alpha-Stim: Patrick Strudwick tests a new device that relieves anxiety and manages pain via "electrotherapy"’, The Telegraph, August 2. Available at:
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...becoming ‘dumbed down’, along with so much else in contemporary culture. The way we’re communicating today, he’d like to suggest, is in such disrepair that it has more in common with the way that prehistoric humans communicated. The reason for his use of this rather odd comparison is that his real target is the popularity of emojis. Emojis – on the off-chance...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...student of Greek history, like me, cannot but admire the historian’s unparalleled understanding of the invisible web that every ambitious, skillful and ruthless politician must weave around his audience. Since there was no party system and no elected politicians either, every day in Athens was like being on the campaign trail. As a result, Athens provides a striking...
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How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...out in more local settings – at my own university in 1966, Peter Lloyd, catering manager at the newly-established University of Warwick, averted a protest over the cost and quality of food in the student canteen by lowering the price of sausages by one penny. Let them eat sausages. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015

...students and staff from the Geography Department of Maynooth College (now Maynooth University) and their research provided an invaluable base especially for the Open University programmes in 1983 (Regan and Breathnach, 1981). Using a rural area in the West of Ireland also links the programmes directly to the next series in this collection, on Northeast Mayo. Southwest...
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