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Download your free Matrix of Modern Life poster
Science, Maths & Technology

Download your free Matrix of Modern Life poster

...in the big, bold Bang style! This large poster is ideal to go on the wall at home or at school. You can also see what other free booklets and posters are available. Bang on TV Bang Goes The Theory was broadcast on BBC One (England, Scotland and Northern Ireland) and BBC Two (Wales). Visit our main Bang page to delve deeper into the topics covered in each episode....
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Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130)
Education & Development

Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130)

...choose to study! If you are a Young Applicant in Schools Scheme (YASS) Scotland student, there is further information about YXM130 available for you here: OpenLearn choices for YASS students - OpenLearn - Open University. Remember, it is entirely up to you what you study! You just need to make sure you choose to study courses from more than one subject or discipline....
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Structural Integrity: designing against failure
Science, Maths & Technology

Structural Integrity: designing against failure

...Scotland 125 years earlier; with 75 people killed, the worst ever disaster to befall a trestle bridge. This material forms part of the course T357, Structural integrity: designing against failure... Structural Integrity: Designing against failure A short introduction to this album. Kinzua's Weakest Link An engineer's worst nightmare come true. Using aerial photography and...
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From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) were reflected in the voting patterns of the 2016 referendum. Finally, the course reflects on the implications of these short-term and long-term trends for the UK’s future as a multinational state...This free course sets the experience of Brexit in the context of the UK. It first analyses Brexit as a symptom of the political,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Good Mock COP, Bad Mock COP
Education & Development

Good Mock COP, Bad Mock COP

...Scotland in the Highlands and Moray...On Tuesday 2 November 2021, while global delegates were gathering in Glasgow for the COP26 conference, schools across the Highlands and Moray were abuzz with excitement. Pupils were assembling virtually as delegate nations to take decisive action on climate resolutions. The Mock COP26 negotiations, run by Gemma Burnside, Partnerships...
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Gain Skills with The Open University
Money & Business

Gain Skills with The Open University

...scotland/study/courses-and-qualifications The OU also have a huge number of free, short courses that you can do at any time and at your own pace. We have suggested some OpenLearn Badged Open Courses below which are designed to accelerate and advance your career aspirations. Each course is 24 hours long and awards an Open University Statement of Participation and a Digital...
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Brexit’s impact on the nations of the UK - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
History & The Arts

Brexit’s impact on the nations of the UK - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

...Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay in the EU. As a result, the UK is triggering Article 50 against a backdrop of constitutional crisis, with the Scottish government pushing towards a second independence referendum and Northern Ireland struggling to re-form a government. The divisions and ties between the UK, its nations and Europe are based on forms of community,...
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Britain's Billion Year Journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Britain's Billion Year Journey

...Scotland was on the continent of Laurentia, and the Southern part of ‘Britain’ was on the continent of Gondwana. It was another 100 million years before Southern Britain and Scotland would finally meet… A segment of Gondwana including Britain and Ireland, split away from the main body of Gondwana 475 million years ago. This land called Avalonia made its way across...
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