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Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...system that discouraged the language’s use. The Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge11, established in 1709, played an important role in the education of young Gaels through the 18th and 19th Centuries. Initially, their attitude to the language was outwardly hostile and the speaking of Gaelic was banned even in the playground. In 1750, the...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...think about choosing a revision place where you can spread out your materials and leave them as they are, without having to pack anything away. This means that you can pick up and put down your revision whenever you find time to revise. This will help you to make the most of your revision time. On the other hand, you may find that you concentrate better away from the...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...thinking is that efficiency, which is related to the speed and volume of output a process produces, needs to be balanced against effectiveness, or the quality of that output. In the next section, we will spend some time considering how the ideas that have been highlighted so far fit together, before moving on to consider how you can use them in your own working...
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...system of accounting. Being able to understand and express the accounting equation in different forms is crucial to understanding and preparing the balance sheet (the principal financial statement) and the income statement...Week 2: Essential numerical skills for accounting: 2.1 Mastering accounting numeracy - Competent accountants should be able to use mental...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...think are important for students to learn about? An over-reliance on test results may lead teachers to make generalisations and judgements about a pupil’s capability in all aspects of a subject, based on the formal testing of a subset. For example, a National Curriculum level tells us nothing about a pupil’s problem-solving ability or creativity, nor about their...
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...system of units) known as SI. The SI unit of length, for example, is the metre (m), and the SI unit for time is the second (s). Example: What is 1000 metres in SI form? The prefix for one ‘thousand’ is ‘kilo’, so the answer is one kilometre (1 km in shortened form). One thousand metres, one kilometre and 1 km are alternative ways of describing the same thing....
The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...system, however, the national polling average is not as valuable as individual state polling. It’s the states, not the whole country, that decide the election. To be elected president, a candidate must win more than 269 electoral votes, which are apportioned to the individual states based on the size of their delegations to Congress. With the exceptions of Maine and...
What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...systemic crises of capitalism, such as environmental degradation and the alarming growth in poverty and inequality within nation-states. As a result of this failure, powerful economic elites came to completely control politics through lobbying and corruption. In the US the so called political establishment, expressed in the shape of Democrat candidate Hilary Clinton,...