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“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...Laws, through to the 1737 Administration of Justice (Language) Act (Ireland). The language was outlawed, and speakers and communities, school children and those from native Gaeltacht regions, oppressed, marginalised and often persecuted. The new northern state was yet another step in the wrong direction, with successive Governments banning Irish from education and almost...
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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...law are necessarily the most harmful types of behaviour and also questions the assumption that harms are limited to the actions of individuals. It encourages you to think more broadly about harm than the traditional focus on crime in both the academic subject of criminology and in culture more generally, which can obscure some of the most problematic and harmful aspects...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...Law is not affected. For a few commercial and industrial purposes there is need for Community Law. But our criminal law, trial by jury, presumption of innocence remain unaltered. So do our civil rights. See a pdf of the Yes leaflet Embed from Getty Images We know how Basil Fawlty voted According, at least, to The Germans episode of Fawlty Towers: May I say how pleased we...
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The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...laws’; that there were rational, universally valid answers to the questions asked by an enquiring mind; that for every effect there was an identifiable cause, for every natural phenomenon an explanation, a category and a definition, if only we try hard enough to find it. This confidence in reason or intellect lies at the heart of the Enlightenment...The Enlightenment:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...law and are said to be ohmic. However, not all materials are ohmic in nature. As current flows through a circuit, it transfers energy. When it flows through a material that has a non-zero resistance, this energy is used (for instance, to light a bulb or run a motor) or dissipated as heat (which is why electronics circuits sometimes feel warm, and why computers need...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)
Education & Development

Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)

...law and policy, as well as keeping updated on issues which continue to be debated in parliament; particularly relationships education. The discussion of goals naturally led to considering the reality of navigating RSE in each context. This included consideration of practitioner confidence, parents’ and carers’ expectations, finding time and space in an already crowded...
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Reduce e-waste through donating old computer devices
Nature & Environment

Reduce e-waste through donating old computer devices

...laws (although they do not cover computers or smartphones yet) and WEEE regulations (waste electrical and electronic equipment) but there are also things we can do now. [A pile of old discard laptop devices on a shop shelf] Reasons to donate Old computers can often have some life left in them. Here are a few reasons why a donation is worth considering. 75% of the fossil...
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Crime, Order and Social Control
Society, Politics & Law

Crime, Order and Social Control

...law in Britain. Taking racial abuse seriously How a new easier-to-prove offence allows the courts to deal more effectively with perpetrators of racial harassment. Improving police procedures Plumstead police's efforts to provide higher quality of service to the victims of racial incidents. Training police in Plumstead Patrol officers discuss policy with the Racial...
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