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PY Gerbeau on the business of football
Money & Business

PY Gerbeau on the business of football

...work." Find out more about the business of football with this free OpenLearn course. Individual football clubs have to survive in a competitive market – competition for players, competition for TV income, competition against other leisure activities. Promotion to the Premier league is the biggest incentive of all: this can boost club income by up to £10m a year....
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Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...worked. ALICE ROBERTS If you’ve got corrosion inside the cable, that’s weakening it from the inside? ALASTAIR ANDREW It is weakening the cable but the cable is perfectly safe at the moment. But, if we cannot stop that corrosion, the predictions are that we will have to stop heavy goods vehicles using the bridge in 2014 and, ultimately, close the bridge by 2019. ALICE...
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Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?

...social engagement. My results suggest one concrete avenue where greater political attentiveness may produce clear benefits – greater sanctioning of politicians who misuse public office for personal or political gain. This article was originally published by LSE USAPP blog under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence and is based on the paper, ’Uninformed Voters and Corrupt...
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Los sonidos del Español en su historia
Languages

Los sonidos del Español en su historia

...en Francia), habla en sus textos sobre cuestiones sociales y políticas y ha recibido numerosos premiso y reconocimientos a lo largo de su trayectoria. Este fragmento pertenece a Las siete cabritas, obra dedicada a la vida de siete mujeres mexicanas, entre las cuales tan solo Frida Kahlo goza de fama internacional. Transcripción Más contenidos sobre la lengua española...
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STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...social justice December 7: Ray Ison, Open University (Australia/ Milton Keynes) ‘In search of Aha moments’ Fifty years of systemic co-designing for transformative learning with STiP. Celebration 2: Podcast series During the summer of 2021, 10 Systems thinking practitioners with diverse association with the ASTiP group over the past 50 years were identified and invited...
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Newyddion ffug yng Nghymru
Society, Politics & Law

Newyddion ffug yng Nghymru

...Social… encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology". Dyma ddatganiad cenhadaeth ar gyfer llwyfan newydd ar y cyfryngau cymdeithasol a gyhoeddwyd gan Donald Trump fis Hydref 2021. Mae ei enw wedi codi sawl gwrychyn, o ystyried hanes ei sylfaenydd o ran dweud y ‘gwir’ - neu beth mae’r rhan fwyaf o bobl...
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The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond
Languages

The interplay of language and culture in times of crisis: COVID-19 and beyond

...social media users have raised concerns that this term reinforces stigmatisation of a group of people who have become very vulnerable in Chinese society (Koetse, 2022). Ukraine invaded The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a very rich example of the complex interplay of language and culture in times of crisis. But as other global events continue to reverberate and enmesh...
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How inclusive is women’s football?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How inclusive is women’s football?

...social group. This is not to suggest that women players cannot or do not embody inclusive attitudes and behaviours, because many do, nor that all ethnic minority players experience regular exclusion. But for these British Asian players, racism was side-lined in favour of focusing upon the (shared) gender struggles that helped their inclusion in the game. The denial of...
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