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The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...de Football Association, or FIFA as it is more commonly known, itself has experienced significant controversy relating to the internal politics (or the small ‘p’ politics) of the organisation. However, before you delve into FIFA, take a moment to explore what is meant by ‘political’ in this course. Activity 1 Identifying political themes relating to this course...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...Les Ruines de Dougga, Tunis, Ministere des Affaires Culturelles, Institut National d'Archeologie et d'Arts) (PDF, 1 page, 1MB) Please click to view Plate 1b: Plan of Thugga continued. (PDF, 1 page, 1MB) Exploring Thugga (part 1, 8 minutes) PHIL PERKINS: This is the city of Thugga, in the ancient kingdom and Roman Province of Numidia. It lies on the slopes of the valley of...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...modes which the Detective represented. Marlowe would say this is a lot of weak talk, I guess. Tom Westcott CRIMINAL PROFILING I am currently researching image related to anxiety. It seems that there might be a link here. Whilst lack of empathy would appear to be a necessity to enable violent crimes to be committed, in the wider personality structure the criminal's self...
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Article 10 mins
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...Respiration is greatly reduced. It may take place at quite evenly spaced intervals, or long periods of apnoea (cessation of breathing) may occur followed by several deep inspirations. (The record for holding a breath in torpor is 150 minutes in a hedgehog, though the average for this species is 60 minutes.) The lower T b of hibernating animals and the changes in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga

...de Souza. However, the treaty was short-lived and Nzinga escaped with her people further west, where they founded a new state at Matamba. In alliance with former rival states Nzinga led an army against the Portuguese, initiating a thirty year war. She achieved victory in 1647, aided by the Dutch, and encouraged rebellion within Ndongo, which was now governed through a...
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Article 5 mins
Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement

...de Coubertin who revived the modern Olympic Games there were in fact many Olympic events taking place throughout Europe before Coubertin was even born. One of these, set in the small Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, has been widely considered by sports historians as one of the key influences on the modern Olympics, and even delegates for the Tokyo 2020’s organising...
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Article 10 mins
Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...de la Serre to develop his Ecriture Nocturne (night reading) system. Barbier used a 6x6 grid with raised dots to represent the letters (and some common pairs of letters) of the French alphabet. [Barbier's sonography ('night writing')] Sonography In 1821 Barbier demonstrated his system at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institute for Blind Youth) in Paris...
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Article 10 mins
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...modes of creativity and the stages of the ‘creative’ process in geographical teaching and learning define controversial issues and explain their significance in geographical education relate personal views of teaching and learning to those presented use different resources and approaches to support students’ learning...Teaching secondary geography: 1 How do young...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs