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The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...concept of the rule of law, how an Act of Parliament is structured and considers how and why members of the public are encouraged to become involved with the work of the Scottish Parliament...This free course, The Scottish Parliament and law making, explores the law making powers of the Scottish Parliament and examines its place in the UK’s constitution. It considers...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...conceptions, there were low rates of illegitimacy. The average size of early modern families was relatively small, at four or five, with infant deaths resulting from malnourishment, disease, and accidents. By the early modern period, there was a proliferation of visual images of domestic and family life. Both Protestant and Catholic churches increasingly subordinated...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...concept of our Solar System showing the Sun, planets, asteroid belt, comets and other objects Our Solar System formed 4.65 billion years ago, with the planets, asteroids, comets and other objects forming from within a swirling disk of gas and dust with the Sun at the centre. Since their formation, many of the planets have experienced processes that have destroyed or...
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...concept of scale plans and drawings interpreted scale plans and decided upon a suitable scale for a drawing...Session 4: Shape and space: 5 Session 4 summary - Well done! You have now completed the fourth and final session of the course. If you have identified any areas that you need to work on, please ensure you refer back to this section of the course. You should now be...
Free course 48 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...concept of an ‘expert patient’. The legitimising of patient views (or, more accurately, parent views in the MMR debate) is seen as a backlash against ‘medical paternalism’. This is the idea that doctors patronise their patients by assuming that they know more about a condition than those living with it. Opponents of this view insist that lay people can never...
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...concept from plagiarism and intellectual theft by others. * Creative commons An organisation whose philosophy and work are focused on promoting a variety of copyright licences which allow creators to grant more generous and flexible levels of usage of their work by others. * Crowdsourcing A term that refers to the largely online practice of asking for input from a large...
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...concepts of both smell and taste from a biological perspective. You can now go to Week 3...Week 2: An introduction to brewing: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Louise MacBrayne. It was first published in February 2019. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...concepts, principles, theories, classification systems and language associated with minerals and rocks use the essential terms, concepts and strategies of mineralogy apply knowledge and understanding of the study of rock thin sections using a polarising microscope work with and recognise a variety of minerals and microtextures in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks...