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Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...changing hands between both parties over this period. [Scottish Government 2014: Scotland's Future and Scottish Fisheries] In important respects this Scotland is a very different place from the large urban conurbation around Glasgow. For the SNP, historically parts of NE Scotland were regarded as its electoral heartland, not least during the period prior to Scottish...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...changed the world. Ada's contribution to developing the computer And this is where we return to Ada Lovelace. She met Babbage at his London studio when she was only seventeen and had seen some of the workings of the Difference Engine. According to her companions, Ada immediately understood the workings of the machine and its potential. Throughout the 1830s conversed...
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Dance skills
Education & Development

Dance skills

...changes in the body through the use of mirrors is helpful to start with. As teachers, we need to guide the students' alignment through the use of general and individual verbal prompts, imagery and, where appropriate, the use of touch. A light touch, for example using the fingertips to demonstrate lengthening in the lower back or to prevent the shoulders from dropping...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...change and innovation in writing: ‘It may be possible’ she says: that prose is going to take over – has, indeed, already taken over – some of the duties which were once discharged by poetry…and that in ten or fifteen years’ times prose will be used for purposes for which prose has never been used before….We shall be forced to invent new names for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...changes over time. In that case, the model will not only have to capture any enduring properties of interest, but also any changes in time that are of interest. For example, in astronomy there is a rich tradition of building such models of the solar system (see Figure 8). The purpose of such a model, known as an orrery, is to represent the position of the planets relative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...changes brought about by cancer cause the pattern of so-called ‘volatile organic chemicals’ produced by affected cells to alter – and dogs seem to be able to detect patterns characteristic of specific cancers. Ten years ago, Guest says, there was “massive scepticism” among medics about dog cancer detection. To some extent, she says, it continues, partly because...
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Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...change as they experience higher levels of energy and vigour and lower levels of negative mood states. While Dr Roebuck stresses the positive benefits of extreme endurance sports it is important to say that they can also have a downside. For example, the characteristics that make these sports attractive can facilitate behaviours associated with exercise addiction...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...changed the subject, but Jo Cox was murdered. I mean, and that must have, I mean that is appalling. And that was just one of the most appalling events ever, um, but it’s interesting. I think, since the Second World War I think eight MPs have died in a similar way to Jo Cox. That is how exceptional it was. Anyway we’d shifted the subject. And by shifting the subject,...
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