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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

...English football club shirts around Armistice Day each year Discussion This activity is used to show you how consistently sport and political themes have been associated with one another since the 1930s. By considering how these examples relate to our six political themes, you might notice that some of these events connect with more than one theme. For example: through...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding PCSO powers
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding PCSO powers

...English Dictionary uses the explanation ‘has drunk intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady self-control; intoxicated, inebriated’ (‘Drunk’, 2022). Similarly, ‘disorderly’ uses the standard Oxford English Dictionary definition of ‘opposed to or violating moral order, constituted authority, or recognized rule or method; not submissive to rule,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...English Dictionary: a social party or assembly; a number of individuals assembled or associated together; a body of people combined for some common object; a legal association formed to carry out some commercial or industrial undertaking; a party of actors, entertainers, musicians, etc. You might have had some idea that most companies are concerned with running...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...English Channel, seizing its cargo of salt and Oriental luxuries, thereby precipitating the third Anglo-Dutch war of that year. Samuel Pepys was afraid of Holmes (‘an idle, proud, conceited, though stout fellow’), and on several occasions expressed reluctance at having to deal with him on matters of naval discipline. After the second Dutch war Holmes was rewarded for...
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Article 10 mins
Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...everyday needs, just getting out of the house can be difficult, let alone finding time for regular exercise or organised activities with your friends. Due to lack of respite care due to lockdown it was no longer possible to venture out to engage in exercise or physical activity, or for a social meeting with friends, and such the benefits these pursuits provide were...
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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...everyday experience that is the reality for many working class people. Theresa May, for example, was educated at a private Roman Catholic School for Girls before graduating from Oxford. She then worked at the Bank of England. Amber Rudd, her successor at the Home Office, is the daughter of a stockbroker who was educated at the private Cheltenham Ladies College, before...
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6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales

...everyday life of average citizens, there has never been a more important time for us all to use our influence. But how can you make your voice heard? Here are six ideas to get you started. 1. Speak to your local politicians [6 ways to make your voice heard in Wales body] Everyone in Wales is represented by five Members of the Senedd. Our country is split up into 40...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...everyday realities of university life. One of the main vehicles for thinking about this is the academic self. As observed by the editors, ‘an academic in a cloister is a very different creature from one on a stage’ (6). Though blogs, Twitter and Facebook are performative spaces, academic use and appropriation of these stages are diverse. Chapter Two’s study of PhD...
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Article 5 mins