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Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...class distinction. (World Heritage List Advisory Body Evaluation, 1994, p. 78) World Heritage List: Old and New Towns of Edinburgh Justification by State Party [Edinburgh New Town, view 1] (Photo: © Tim Benton) © Photo: © Tim Benton Figure 5: Edinburgh New Town, view 1 [Edinburgh New Town, view 2] (Photo: © Tim Benton) © Photo: © Tim Benton Figure 6 Edinburgh New...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...feedback about the experience. Our focus group participants felt that they would want the outcome provided in writing and regulators do provide this: [The quote reads: ‘After a decision was made at Fitness to Practise heading I would want the full judgement result in writing whether or not the decision went in my favour.’] And, we know from Parliamentary and Health...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...feedback process that further increased fire activity. Hominids have used lightning-ignited fire for perhaps as long as 1.5 million years, but first began to ignite fires between 200 000 and 400 000 years ago. Over recent millennia the occurrence of fire has been increasingly influenced by human activity and is currently a major cause of global atmospheric pollution and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...des sçavans, together with extracts of his letter to Chapelain. I say almost verbatim, because at several points in the narrative phrases have been inserted: ‘having there adjusted his Watches’, ‘having a great confidence in the said Watches’. The same account translated into Dutch eventually featured as the unique account of a sea-trial of pendulum clocks to be...
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Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...feedback from your tutor, you should regard it as an opportunity to develop your skills and improve your arguments. On A211 there are two types of written assessment: seven tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) and a final exam. Each has a different function. TMAs require you to develop a considered response to a question, which may take several days to compose. They give you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...de Vincennes near Paris (BBC, 2020). The demonstration involved taking several rifles apart, putting the components into different boxes, then mixing up the components within the boxes, before reassembling the flintlocks by picking out random parts from each box. This could be done in minutes with little skill required. The demonstration was astonishing to the audience...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others. ...Session 1: Mind the gap: gender differences in sport science research and its impact on female athletes: Introduction - Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. (Ruth Bader Ginsberg)...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...class population in the towns and cities. [Figure 1] Figure 1 North Indian art music is practised widely over northern and central India, Pakistan and Bangladesh The tradition includes a number of related styles and genres, both vocal and instrumental. The piece featured in the video belongs to a genre called khyal , which is the most commonly heard vocal genre in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs