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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...Scotland recovery guide which provides a useful overview. Comment There are a broad range of recovery strategies available to sport and exercise participants such as ice baths, cryotherapy chamber, heat, massage, compression clothing, nutrition, hydration, sleep, relaxation techniques, stretching, electromuscular stimulation, and analgesics (e.g. ibuprofen). There are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...Scotland met in 1792. Apart from an extreme fringe, this was a movement for peaceful constitutional change rather than violent revolution. It was also strongly and effectively opposed at a popular level by loyalist’ organisations that upheld the existing social and political structure. Nevertheless, conservatives were alarmed by the mere existence of popular radicalism,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...Scotland (where professional growth through career-long professional learning is strongly embedded in school systems), school leaders and practitioners are expected to fully engage with social justice principles. These principles are, for instance, strongly in evidence in the Scottish professional standards. As a consequence, in the Scottish context, professional...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...Scotland there is a third key area that social workers may work in, and that is as a Criminal Justice Social Worker. Whilst you are watching think about your preconceptions of what social workers do and whether that is consistent with the social workers in these videos. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: Sunday morning, and Sam Swan, an emergency duty social worker, is starting a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...Scotland the equivalent tax to SDLT is Land and Buildings Transactions Tax (LBTT) and in Wales it is Land Transaction Tax (LTT). The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly have the power to apply their own rates for these equivalents of SDLT. The next section reviews the range of risks and challenges that come with a mortgage. It will look at how coping with the costs of...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...Scotland. And there were two subjects that Tony Blair had chosen: Africa and climate change, and the progress on Africa was really pretty good, you remember Live Aid and all the pressure to increase aid for Africa; most of the people there, including George W Bush, had fought hard about Africa. But the second subject, climate change, there was hardly any substance...
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Audio 5 mins
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...Scotland, Wales and Ireland. They assume north to be at the top of each vertical line but, if this were really the case, they would not converge at the Poles. A graticule represents the meridians running north-south and the parallels of latitude running east-west. Centring What goes to the centre of a map will become the focus of attention and it can be manipulated...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...Scotland and Wales. [Described image] In 1998, following a series of referendums, powers to make laws in relation to a number of topic areas were devolved from the UK Parliament to legislatures in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. More powers have been devolved in subsequent decades. The Scottish and Welsh Parliaments – the latter is commonly referred to as the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs