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Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?

...England player that starts in the Euro 2020 Championships represents the product of an increasingly sophisticated and highly resourced talent development system. There will be many however who argue these players are just the ones who have emerged relatively unscathed from a system that is controlled by the often ruthless business decisions of professional football clubs....
Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...businesses has increasingly been spent on transfer fees for top players from all around the World and the accompanying wages that they demand. In 1969 the average top tier footballer could expect to earn around £64 a week with Manchester United laying out £204,028 on wages in comparison to the £264 million spent by Manchester City in the 2016-2017 season, with Kevin de...
The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...businesses. The CEDRA report also recommends the creation of rural economic-development zones and a small-town stimulus programme. More recently, in March 2015, the Save Rural Ireland alliance was launched with the intention of highlighting issues affecting the social and economic development of rural Ireland, and lobbying the government for reform. Its initial membership...
What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...business culture, people have been brought up to think of work as separate from their lives, and not understand the relationship between the two. One of the things that we're trying to get people to see is that they are very much part and parcel of the same thing. Organisations, in terms of building in flexibility, need to understand that as people go through their...
How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...business sector. The place where idealistic shoppers go to score locally-brewed kombucha and fair-trade quinoa. Or maybe where their great-grandparents sold farm commodities during the hard times of the Depression. Few realize the livelihood of more than a billion people are made secure by cooperatives, according to the United Nations. One hundred million people around...
Enduring Love
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enduring Love

...business of forgiveness. So if in a marriage you can bring that into it, because we’ve all done wrong things, and forgive one another, that is a bedrock for that sort of enduring love relationship. By the grace of God we have kept a marriage alive together. Title: time flies Ann It has got to come back to being comfortable with one another, the fact that we have made a...
The Good Friday Agreement and the future of the union
Society, Politics & Law

The Good Friday Agreement and the future of the union

...business and investment, as long as the status of Northern Ireland, with in the Union, doesn’t change. So, was 1998 worth it? In 1998 I was a cautious Yes voter and I remain so. In my opinion is the Union weaker or stronger? Ironically I believe that actually the Union is not any weaker nor any stronger, it is different but the reasons for and the support of the Union...
Detecting fake images
Society, Politics & Law

Detecting fake images

...business and many new kinds of research are being undertaken. To spot a fake image, sometimes you just need common sense A fake image often looks unbelievably and extraordinarily spectacular. When being presented such an image, we should ask ourselves whether the contents of the image can be real or whether it agrees with the character of the subject. This often needs...