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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...central authority telling us what to teach (or how to teach it). It follows from this that teachers need to be learners, and work hard at refining their specialist subject knowledge. Can ‘anyone’ really teach geography? I don't think so! Follow up your thinking on these issues by doing the tasks in Activity 1. Activity 1 Click 'view document' to read David Lambert on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...central to our geographical imagination; that images and identities are socially constructed and are not neutral or objective: how we define a place reflects and affects our attitudes towards it and our experience of it; that images are selective; that places have multiple identities; that images and identities are open to and reflect varied interpretations; that these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...central to the planning of their education experiences. Individual development plans (IDPs) that will eventually replace the ‘statement’ system, will stay with the child through their schooling and beyond, to the age of 25, to allow for a more bespoke and thorough educational provision. ‘Inclusive education’ is one of the five fundamental principles of the Code,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...central belt to seek permanent and or seasonal work...Sustainable Scotland: 4 Global trade in recycling - Let's look now at the global trade in recycling. Scotland is connected to the wider world by what it discards in a number of interesting ways. For example, a Clyde-built ship is likely to find its way to the Bay of Bengal to be dismantled. Another example is the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...central role within the body of theoretical mathematics. The basic idea of what logarithms were to achieve is straightforward: to replace the wearisome task of multiplying two numbers by the simpler task of adding together two other numbers. To each number there was to be associated another, which Napier called at first an ‘artificial number’ and later a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...central signalling paradigm that will be explored in this course is depicted in Figure 1. Figure 1 Hypothetical cellular communication pathway. The binding of an extrinsic signalling molecule to a specific receptor stimulates an intracellular transduction process that leads to the activation of effector molecule(s) and a cellular response. Cellular responses can be of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...central banks are permitted for inclusion in the liquidity buffer on the basis that, in a financial crisis, these are the only financial assets that may remain liquid (i.e. capable of being sold for cash). (Source: Financial Services Authority, 2009)...Liquidity management: 5 IFRS and liquidity - When we examine financial risks we also need to look at what...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...central and northern Britain. When this ice melted, and the weight on the land was reduced, the land in northern Britain began to rise (a process called ‘glacial rebound’), tilting Britain and causing part of the south, including the Blackwater estuary, to sink. This caused a relative rise in sea level in this area, which is still continuing today, at a rate of about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs