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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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Article 5 mins
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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EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...students and your teachers. These are probably people you know well, and who know each other well. What five words could you use to describe them? Then think about how you will use your presentation to appeal to them and engage their interest. What are the guidelines for the presentation? It’s always a good idea to know the guidelines for your presentation. The basics...
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Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...students, 120 said that they mainly use a laptop in their studies rather than a desktop computer. What percentage of students use a laptop? On a production line for computer monitors, 3 out of 750 monitors are faulty. What percentage of monitors are faulty? Answer 420 / 700×100=60 So 60% of the people surveyed use the internet for general browsing. 120 / 320×100=37.5 So...
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Level 1: Introductory 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
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...become the driving force in the generation of a whole host of global challenges. It is also the basis for his account of how the crisis tendencies of capitalist urban development open up opportunities for all sorts of political action to challenge and transform established patterns of urban development. Activity 2 In his essay on The right to the city, Harvey outlines how...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...become increasingly interlinked in recent years. We need only to think of an Olympic team – which used to be mostly made up of athletes but now is likely to include a squad of almost equal size comprising non-athletic staff such as specialist coaches, trainers, sports psychologists and nutritionists – to realise how science is now a major part of sport. Elite athletes...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs