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June 9, 2014
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Science and Sustainability at the Scottish Learning Festival

THE SCOTTISH LEARNING FESTIVAL 2014: RAISING ACHIEVEMENT AND ATTAINMENT FOR ALL SLF 2014 is completely FREE for everyone to attend and will support practitioners as they explore a wide range of practical approaches, resources and research aimed at improving achievement … Continue reading

June 4, 2014
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Citizen Science for Hurricane Season: Cyclone Center

June 1st marked the official beginning of the hurricane season in the Atlantic, and you can help improve our understanding of these powerful storms on www.cyclonecenter.org To recognize the start of the season, Cyclone Center (or Centre – depending on … Continue reading

June 2, 2014
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Higher Sciences Cross Authority Writing Group

Following the NQ Sciences events which took place in Hampden Stadium in December 2013, Education Scotland, in partnership with the SQA, organised  cross authority writing workshops for NQ sciences qualifications. Faculty Heads and Principal Teachers from 30 local authorities have attended and … Continue reading

June 2, 2014
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Higher Computing Science Conference

Computing Science – support for new national Qualifications Education Scotland organised and delivered a conference to support learning and teaching around the new Higher Computing Science on 29 May 2014.  The main aims of the conference were to Examine a … Continue reading

June 2, 2014
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Edinburgh International Film Festival – STEM Careers Events

Wednesday 24th – 25th June 2014   Into Films will be running 3 career sessions at next month’s EIFF.  One focusing on STEM students, the other on the same day includes STEM as part of film careers, with a third … Continue reading

May 30, 2014
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Higher Biology Resource Guide

This Higher Biology Resources Guide links Mandatory key areas to useful learning and teaching resources. The pages show the Mandatory key areas table from the SQA Higher Biology course and unit support notes with an additional column containing hyperlinks to … Continue reading

May 23, 2014
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Royal Society of Chemistry Global Experiment 2014

The Global Experiment 2014 encourages young people aged 7-16 , from all around the world, to participate in two experiments, investigating solubility and growing crystals, and to share their results around the world by posting them online. The resources required … Continue reading

May 21, 2014
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Software to support server-side development for Higher Computing Science

The new Higher Computing Science has a clear focus on modern technologies and development for the Web.  Server-side scripting and online databases are the building blocks of the large information systems that we all use today. The new Higher requires … Continue reading

May 20, 2014
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Glasgow Science Festival 5th – 15th June 2014

As Glasgow prepares for the Commonwealth Games the Glasgow Science Festival is preparing to bring its exciting mix of science and innovative events to its biggest ever festival. The principle  aim of the Festival is to showcase the outstanding contribution … Continue reading

May 20, 2014
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S3–S6 NATIONAL ICT AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES CAREERS DAY

11th June 2014 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh     10:00 – 10:25 am –        Registration  10:30- 11:15 am –          Welcome to Big Ambition Scotland 11:20 –  Learning zones: Expert Zone – join us for opportunity to ask industry experts questions … Continue reading

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