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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

...laws of the game to make it fair and clear for all who wanted to play. In 1913, FIFA joined the International Football Association Board, which determined the laws of the game, giving a voice at that table to the world of football alongside the existing board members, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. In 1930, Jules Rimet’s dream of a global tournament to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...law as magistrates would not listen to complaints. In cooperating with Sturge and Harvey, Susan might have hoped that people in Britain would be able to understand how bad the situation was in Jamaica and would press for apprenticeship to be abolished. Perhaps she wanted to be remembered? Telling her story to the two men and having them commit it to print ensured that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...law to report the state of their business to the government, and not the general public. Only the tax office is sent the true financial picture of their business. Whatever the role of the accountant, and whatever the size and nature of the business they are serving, they need to develop a wide and deep range of knowledge and skills. Strategic leadership, effective...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...laws in Weimar Germany encouraged a healthy degree of experimentalism in the production of local films, though much of this proved to be apolitical, perhaps because producers were aware of the need to make money (Laqueur, 1974, p. 181). In Britain, where large picture palaces owned by three companies – Odeon, Gaumont-British and Associated British Cinemas – dominated...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...law, contract law. Let’s see how Amazon’s system addresses some of these requirements in terms of the data they store in their databases. This will include: information about customers: names and contact details credit card information the passwords (if any) they use to gain access to the Amazon website information about their products for sale: pictures...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...law, Antarctica is land that is south of 60° S; but animals that only live in the Antarctic can be found as far north as 52° S. Which is right? Both are, to a certain extent, but the reason the cold environment extends so far north is that around Antarctica is a strong cold clockwise-circulating ocean current which isolates the ocean and lands to the south. This is the...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...law, when a policeman stops us on the motorway for speeding – we do not play with language or use jokey expressions or divergent grammars, but we do in other contexts. And it’s understanding this connection between creative language, context and inter personal relations between people that fascinate me. ZSÓFIA DEMJÉN And is there a difference between creative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...law. If star B is 10 times the distance of identical star A, how much brighter would A appear? Star A would appear 10 × 10 = 100 times brighter than star B. In practice, it is not quite so easy to measure distance, because some stars are the same colour but different sizes and so give out different amounts of light - but the general principle of 'faint means far'...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs