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Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...Scotland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, or The Arts Council (ROI). The Association of British Orchestras (ABO) administers the Sirens Fund, which awards grants to support the performance of historical women composers. Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy also awards grants to support the programming of orchestral work by women in the US and internationally. You might also...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...Scotland reveal the existence of several different tetrapod groups (Atlas, pp. 82-83). Some of these were still fully aquatic, but others, such as the superficially lizard-like Westlothiana and the salamander-like Balanerpeton, had probably made the transition to a semi-aquatic life. Life in the water was hazardous, with intense competition for food, and one of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...Scotland...Session 1: Observing and listening to primary school children: 5.2 Safeguarding and school life - [A photograph of a ring of paper figures holding hands.] Figure 4 Safeguarding is not just about protecting children from deliberate harm. It relates to all aspects of school life including: children’s health and safety the use of reasonable force (for example,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...Scotland, founded in 1665 to help Scottish people living away from Scotland. Belfast Central Mission: founded in 1889 by the Methodist Church to help local people in poverty...Week 1: What is the voluntary sector?: 2.1 Timeline - There are many documented histories of the voluntary sector, with similarities and differences between the different fields of interest such as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...Scotland and Wales by an Irish sea border. So, people are feeling angry that they are being separated from other British people if you know what I mean. Another factor in the riots was that the Protestant community [Matty’s community] was sort of treated differently by the PSNI (local police force). That was another sort of reason why young people were letting their...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...Scotland, which was heavily Calvinist. Their atypicality does not prevent the readings from being used as vehicles for the appreciation of tendencies in that period. Studying cultural history would be a dull process if it consisted of being given a checklist of themes to mark off against a series of typical cultural artefacts. The pieces you will be reading have been...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...Scotland a close association is made between ‘neds’ (generally interpreted as non-educated delinquents) and council estates (Fergusson and Muncie, 2008). Council estates have also featured as convenient backdrops of social disorganisation in popular fiction and journalism, in travelogues, and as a source of political commentary and policy debate. In the late 1990s and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...Scotland) but the three introduced above are the most common. Similar business ownership structures exist in many other countries although the precise legal implications can differ in important ways. Legal and ownership structures, business size and industry sector are not entirely independent of each other. For example, most sole traders tend to be small businesses, not...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs