Tag: Penalties

Free Download Phil Ascough, "Never Mind the Penalties: The Ultimate World Cup Quiz Book"
English | ISBN: 0750958421 | 2014 | 128 pages | EPUB | 527 KB
84 years since the first tournament, 48 years since England won it, the World Cup has its critics, but time stands still when your team plays. Hope and horror, passion and pain-and that’s just the draw for the final groups! This is the ultimate collection of World Cup teasers, pulling together the highs and lows, the match-winners and the madness, the bizarre and the beautiful, from soccer’s greatest tournament. Test your mates in the pub, liven up the pre-match warm-up, deliver a little half-time entertainment, and create your own penalty shoot-out. Keep a copy in your pocket as you count down to Brazil 2014-it’s an essential part of your World Cup build-up. Author and journalist Phil Ascough has trawled through his own memories, picked the brains of fellow followers, and produced a compilation designed to furrow a few eyebrows and also raise a smile. Get your FIFA thinking caps on-it’s quiz time!

Free Download Camilla Borgna, "Migrant Penalties in Educational Achievement: Second-generation Immigrants in Western Europe "
English | ISBN: 9462981345 | 2017 | 208 pages | PDF | 1205 KB
The integration of second-generation immigrants has proved to be a major challenge for Europe in recent years. Though these people are born in their host nations, they often experience worse social and economic outcomes than other citizens. This volume focuses on one particular, important challenge: the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants. Looking at data from seventeen European nations, Camilla Borgna shows that migrant penalties in educational achievement exist in each one-but that, unexpectedly, the penalties tend to be greater in countries in which socio-economic inequalities in education are generally more modest, a finding that should prompt reconsideration of a number of policy approaches.