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QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...working with their national teams. Having a clear strategy Now back to this pipeline: what will make an effective pipeline? I believe that FIFA have a big part to play here. Currently, Arsène Wenger is leading FIFA’s Talent Development Programme which now has 200 out of 211 associations on board. It seems to be a good initiative, however one of the main reasons these...
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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...works ­– in order to be understood. [A diagram showing the correlation between average league position and wage expenditure relative to the average for the Premier League and Championship Teams 2003-2012] Figure 1 The football business market: Players and clubs We can observe that clubs compete aggressively to hire players – there is an active transfer market with...
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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...working. On the other hand, organisations that act to curb digital emissions now, set themselves on a better trajectory to achieving and maintaining NetZero strategies as digital continues to become more pervasive. What can corporates do to tackle digital carbon footprints? The path towards managing and reducing digital carbon footprints is one that requires changes in...
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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...work hard at refining their specialist subject knowledge. Can ‘anyone’ really teach geography? I don't think so! Follow up your thinking on these issues by doing the tasks in Activity 1. Activity 1 Click 'view document' to read David Lambert on Mapping geography. View document You can re-read Jessica's story by clicking on 'view document' below. View document Click on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...work of Peter McDougall in the 1970s – an excerpt from which is included in the programme – serves to illustrate much of this negative image. But it is also claimed that this negative image of violence was constructed from outside the city by, among others, media based far away in London/England; it was essentially what others said about Glasgow. Glaswegians knew...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...work. Drugs such as aspirin act at the site of the injury to stop or at least reduce the production of messenger chemicals that stimulate the nerve endings. Another class of drugs, the opiates such as codeine and morphine, act on the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Sometimes, the aspirin-like and codeine/morphine-like drugs are combined into one remedy,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...Working with sensitive topics. Sensitive topic This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course W250 Evidence law...Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the rules for admissibility and presentation of expert evidence describe the duties and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...work below from the Black British artist Ashley Straker. In this piece, they graphically depict the emotional exhaustion experienced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, while also simultaneously dealing with racism and news about the injustice of Black people being killed. As indicated in the artwork, these stressors are a lot to ‘carry on your shoulders’. [This is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs