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

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...free course explores the law-making process in Scotland and considers how the legal system has been influenced by change. You consider how Scots law and lawyers have influenced advances in the law on a global, national and local scale. Throughout the course you consider how individuals and institutions have effected change. You explore how law has been used to respond to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
7 accidental discoveries that look like April Fool's Day headlines but aren't
Science, Maths & Technology

7 accidental discoveries that look like April Fool's Day headlines but aren't

...free course. 2. Mouldy container saves the world [mouldy petri dish] This has all the hallmarks of a classic April Fool's Day prank. After returning from a holiday in September 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming found something unusual in one of his petri dishes of Staphylococcus, the bacteria that causes boils, sore throats, and abscesses. This particular dish...
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Article 5 mins
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...free course, Learning from sport burnout and overtraining, examines burnout in sport from various perspectives including both the coach’s and athlete’s perspective. Drawing on real life case studies it explores how coaches can recognise and prevent burnout in athletes, and investigates the prevention and treatment of burnout in coaches. This course is for you if you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Internships and other work experiences Badge icon
Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...free course, Internships and other work experiences, you’ll begin by learning more about what an internship is and how it might differ from other forms of work experience. You’ll find out what you can gain personally and professionally, and consider the practicalities of obtaining work experience, from how to choose what’s right for you, to making strong...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...free course, learners will develop and explore skills to empower themselves as leaders...This free course, Advancing Black leadership, explores techniques members of the Black and Minority Ethnic communities can use to influence people and organisations with power. Advancing Black leadership builds on and consolidates learning from the Introducing Black leadership ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...free course, Digital thinking tools for better decision making, starts by placing thinking tools in their historical context and concludes with an examination of their future. During the course, you’re introduced to a wide variety of digital thinking tools. You will apply these tools in many practical activities and case studies, solving problems that involve finding...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...free course, Microbes friend or foe? sheds some light on them...Microbes often get a bad name. Whilst some of them do cause disease, others play vital roles in recycling nutrients in the soil to enable plants to grow, and in breaking down human waste. Without microbes, we would have no beer, no yoghurt, no coffee. That's quite impressive for something too small to see....
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...free course, Energy resources: solar energy, explores the Sun as a potential source of usable energy...Energy from sources other than fossil and nuclear fuels is to a large extent free of the concerns about environmental effects and renewability that characterize those two sources. Each alternative source supplies energy continually, whether or not we use it, and most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs