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Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...English Parliament’s Union with Scotland Act 1706 which created the Parliament of Great Britain) common law became an integral part of the legal system in Scotland. Precedent forms the basis of the common law and the doctrine of binding precedent is also known as the doctrine of stare decisis, which is Latin meaning ‘to stand by/adhere to decided cases’, i.e. to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...English and the music scores of four of the song settings, on the home page of the course. You are not expected to be able to read the music, but even if you are not very familiar with musical notation, you may well find the scores useful in identifying what is happening in the songs...This free course, Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems, looks at the short...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh
History & The Arts

Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh

...Englishness and patriotism had reached breaking point. They contain traces of the experiences in the trenches that marked both Milne and Shepard, whose illustrations of carnage at the Somme and Paschendale were the subject of a separate recent exhibition. The pastoral paradise of Hundred Acre Wood was one that Milne, who wrote passionately in favour of pacifism, conjured...
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Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result
Society, Politics & Law

Greece: Where now, again? Thomas Piketty responds to Sunday's election result

...continue to bet on a Grexit, setting objectives that are impossible to meet so that when Greece fails, it can be pushed towards the exit. That is still a risk, which is why we need clarity and realistic objectives – and quickly.[The Conversation] The original version of this article appeared on The Conversation France., and the English translation at The Conversation....
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Article 5 mins
Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?
Society, Politics & Law

Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?

...English courts, and possibly never will be. But similar evidence has been admitted in other jurisdictions, including India. In the Indian case of Aditi Sharma the court heard evidence that her brain responses implicated her in her former fiancé’s murder. After investigators read statements related and unrelated to the offence, they claimed her responses indicated...
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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...English literature, along with former participants in the CP and relatives of former communists. This enabled discussions of different kinds of dual loyalties, for example of members working for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, as well as ‘Commissars’ in the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, and as a Soviet agent in the...
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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...English language data in the world and includes recordings of language produced by children and their caregivers in conversation. Its audio examples of children’s speech are widely used for research projects but also for teaching undergraduate courses in language development. Back to basics Bruner’s former student, Oxford-based Sylva (who was awarded an OBE for her...
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Article 10 mins
Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...English. When they bumped into two Japanese tourists who couldn’t speak Italian and were trying to find a specific piazza, Kokumo told them the road and bus route to get there. When her Italian friend wanted to know what was being said, the tourists thought he was talking about them. Kokumo eased the developing tension by explaining to each party what the other was...
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