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Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...centre of musical activity had shifted somewhat since the late eighteenth century. Then it was the aristocracy who had supported Mozart and, at the turn of the century, the young Beethoven. By the time Schubert was active as a composer, the middle classes were taking over as the main musical patrons. This change is summed up by the Schubert scholar, Maurice Brown: Secular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...children at risk of harm, businesses involved in commercial disputes or individuals asserting their contractual rights. Which particular court hears a legal dispute is determined by a number of factors. These factors can be categorised into either civil or criminal. This categorisation is important as it determines which court will hear the case, the procedure to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...Research consistently shows that people’s perception of risk is a function not just of the possible harm, but also of the attributes of the hazards and benefits associated with the thing in question. So how can you decide what risk is reasonable and on what evidence something is safe?...Assessing risk in engineering, work and life: ALARP - One concept of risk...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...research into and draw conclusions about international relations. Theories might be quite specific – a series of claims about a particular field of IR like security or peace. Or they might be general theories – broader, abstract ways of understanding IR. Debates in this theoretical sense also connects with the discussion of actors and issues you have already read...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...centred on a woman struggling out of a nervous breakdown, that's as far as possible from the old hard man character. A magic realism arrives in Glasgow fiction with A.L. KeMedy's 1995 novel "So I Am Glad" as the seventeenth century Cyrano de Bergerac turns up in a Glasgow bedsit. Anything's possible in Glasgow today. That's what the new Glasgow fiction says. SEANDAMER I...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...children and I just don’t regard this as an option. I don’t regard that as an option. As David Attenborough said to me, he said, ‘We just have to keep buggering on.’ So I think whether or not you’re an optimist or a pessimist is not really the question, I think we have only got one planet and this is it. I’m afraid it’s a case of doing everything you...
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Video 30 mins
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...research/ Ofekun, S. (2024). NFF under scrutiny again after allegations of financial mismanagement and corruption. In Score Nigeria. Score Nigeria. https://scorenigeria.com.ng/nff-under-scrutiny-again-after-allegations-of-financial-mismanagement-and-corruption/ Okeleji, O. (2019, May 29). Nigeria Football Federation boss Amaju Pinnick ordered to appear in court. BBC Sport...
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Article 10 mins
Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...research and develop your arguments for and against nuclear energy. You should spend approximately one hour searching online, and approximately one hour compiling your arguments. Your argument should take the form of a debate on the pros and cons of nuclear energy. You should tackle this at a generic level, not in terms of specific sites or proposals. I will come back to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs