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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...Scotland a Coordinated Support Plan (CSP), or in Wales or Northern Ireland a statement of Special Educational Needs (SEN). These are legal documents drawn up by the local authority to specify the additional support needs of the child, objectives for them to achieve and the help that they need in order to achieve those objectives. However, some parents report a...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...Scotland – Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (Gov.SCOTLAND, n.d.) Northern Ireland – Northern Ireland Climate Change Adaptation Programme (Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, n.d.)...Hybrid working: Planning for the future: 1.2 The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 - In the UK, the most developed...
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...Scotland’s National Wellbeing Hub (no date), then spend some time reflecting on the following questions: Have you tried any of the suggestions in the article? If so, how successful were they? What sort of response did they elicit? To what extent do you feel responsible for supporting your colleagues’ wellbeing at work? What other actions, ideas, approaches and...
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...Scotland, Monday), but it is always worth checking! ‘I’ always needs a capital letter, wherever it appears in the sentence. Abbreviations – such as the OU, the BBC, the UK – also need capitals. Finally, the best guideline to go by is that if you are unsure don’t use them. Follow the rules above and you should be accurate most of the time. Too many capitals...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)

...Scotland, Glasgow, SCRE Centre, University of Glasgow...Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese): Acknowledgements - Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under...
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...Scotland. In 1871 he agreed, somewhat reluctantly, to become the first Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge. He died, from cancer, at the early age of 47, but by that time he had already made fundamental contributions to the theory of gases, the study of heat and thermodynamics, and, above all, to electromagnetism. He recast the discoveries of...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...Scotland. Red knots (Calidris canutus, order Charadriiformes) are ‘waders’, eating worms, shellfish and other invertebrates collected from beaches, mudflats and estuaries. These small birds (adult body mass about 0.1 kg) form large, dense flocks near sandy or muddy coasts of northern Britain and northwest Europe during the winter (Figure 7). Like many birds, the...
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...Scotland is rising a few mm a year and the south of England is sinking at a similar rate. With this in mind, you can begin to see why it might be difficult to establish how global mean sea level (sea level averaged across the globe) has varied over the past century due solely to changes in the total volume of water in the oceans. It is this so-called 'eustatic' sea-level...
Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs