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Abstract Aims: There is an increased focus on the internationalisation of the learning experiences of university students1. One way this can be achieved is through 'virtual internationalisation'2, which can be promoted through the use of Online International Learning (OIL) programmes. This article on sport pedagogy investigates the attitudes of sport students to such a programme. Methods: This article uses quantitative and qualitative methods. 63 students completed a survey and wrote reflective reports. Data was collected from a survey of 16 targeted questions addressing the attitudes of students towards the programme. Students also wrote reflective reports on their experiences, allowing for qualitative responses to be analysed. Results: 62% of students surveyed found the internationalised module to have been a worthwhile experience in terms of learning new skills and working with a partner from an institution based in another continent. 65% suggested that they learned skills on the internationalised module they would use again in education and in future employment. Students from European Union countries gave high rates of positive feedback. 100% reported that the module was a worthwhile experience, compared to 60% of UK students and 38% of international students from outside the European Union. Conclusion: 62% of students surveyed stated that they learned new skills, and there was a perceived value to the programme in terms of enhancing employment prospects. Virtual mobilities projects offer a possible method for tutors to give students international experiences, which is important as sport is now a globalised industry.

The article presents the overview of International Scientific Conference «The Russian Systematic Reconstruction as a Strategic Inevitability: Neoeconomic, Neoindustrialization, Neodirigizm», which had taken place at 5—7 of December 2016 on Faculty of Economics of MSU. The questions of fundamental understanding of the state national economy of Russia during structural crisis, search the main directions of Russian social economic reconstruction for strengthen Russian economy, the need and the prospects of «soft mobilization» were discussed at this conference.

"This unique volume examines death from a socio-cultural events perspective. Drawing on the empirical and conceptual work produced by an international body of researchers, it is the first publication to look at death, dying, memorialization, and their mediation, from an events orientation. By placing the contribution of these scholars together, this book provides a unique opportunity to instigate an international, critical discussion, around the connectivities associated with death and events. Chapters consider connections to death and events at an individual level; localised, communally based, construals of the event landscape; the relationship between death and events into larger socio-cultural frames of reference; and how death and events are manifest through diverse platforms of mediation, with a discussion of the media presentation of end of life events and the articulation of death online. Case studies from a wide-ranging selection of countries, from Moscow to Bangladesh to Cambodia, are examined throughout. This will be of great interest to upper-level students and researchers in event studies as well as a variety of other disciplines such as, sociology and cultural studies"--

This book is the first to bring together international research on evidence-based skills and practices in probation and youth justice in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with ethnic minority service users, women and young people.

The international economic system is characterized by rapid and radical restructuring. The causes of change are located in one or several of the following factors: instability resulting out of a declining or changing US hegemony and the responses of US economic policies to change; conflict over distributing the costs imposed by surplus capacity in many industries; an innovation race among the major powers and cor porations ; and the emergence of a new international division of labour resulting out of economic nationalism and internationalization of production at one and the same time. In the process, nations have become more economically vulnerable, a fact experienced in particular by small and open economies like those of the Nordic countries. The author sets out the options of these countries for facing the challenges of increased vulnerability: seeking niche power, cooperating, playing on their democratic corporatism and welfare state policies as a means towards securing national support for economic policy, or improving their external organization. The hypothesis is presented that the latter — external organization — is a crucial factor inter alia because it addresses some inevitable choices that international development is highlighting: the tendency to deregulate financial markets and regulate trade; the drift from multi lateralism to bilateralism and protectionism in trade; and the reinforced international sedimentation process most visible in North-South relations but witnessed also within the South as well as within various countries (rising unemployment).

The international economic system is characterized by rapid and radical restructuring. The causes of change are located in one or several of the following factors: instability resulting out of a declining or changing US hegemony and the responses of US economic policies to change; conflict over distributing the costs imposed by surplus capacity in many industries; an innovation race among the major powers and cor porations ; and the emergence of a new international division of labour resulting out of economic nationalism and internationalization of production at one and the same time. In the process, nations have become more economically vulnerable, a fact experienced in particular by small and open economies like those of the Nordic countries. The author sets out the options of these countries for facing the challenges of increased vulnerability: seeking niche power, cooperating, playing on their democratic corporatism and welfare state policies as a means towards securing national support for economic policy, or improving their external organization. The hypothesis is presented that the latter — external organization — is a crucial factor inter alia because it addresses some inevitable choices that international development is highlighting: the tendency to deregulate financial markets and regulate trade; the drift from multi lateralism to bilateralism and protectionism in trade; and the reinforced international sedimentation process most visible in North-South relations but witnessed also within the South as well as within various countries (rising unemployment).