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July 31, 2014
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Languages and STEM skills, opening doors!

SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages, is working with businesses and schools in Scotland to promote languages as a key skill for employment. Operating effectively in a global economy relies on many skills and includes the right language skills. People … Continue reading

July 25, 2014
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First Lego League World Class Challenge August 26th 2014

FIRST LEGO League is a robotics program for 9 to16 year olds designed to get young learners interested in and enthsed by science and technology — and teach them valuable employment and life skills. It can be used in the … Continue reading

July 18, 2014
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Higgs Prize winners visit CERN

The Higgs Prize is awarded on merit to two pupils from a publicly-funded school who have shown outstanding performance in the Advanced Higher Physics exam. Established in recognition of the impact Nobel Physics Prize winner Professor Higgs’ theoretical work has … Continue reading

July 18, 2014
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The Royal Institute – fun, easy ways to do exciting science at home

ExpeRimental is a new series of free short films that make it fun, easy and cheap to do science at home with children aged four to ten. Ignite a child’s natural curiosity and explore, question and test some of the fundamentals … Continue reading

July 16, 2014
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Dams to Darnley Environmental Education Pack

Young learners from Crookfur Primary School, East Renfrewshire and Cleeves Primary, Glasgow, have helped launch the new Dams to Darnley Environmental Education Pack. The pack, which has been written by Countryside Ranger Eilidh Milne, is structured around Curriculum for Excellence … Continue reading

July 8, 2014
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July at the Royal Institute

The Royal Institute is holding a series of events and workshops for all ages throughout July. Take a trip to Antartica Chris Turney will present the initial findings of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014, and explore what’s happened since the … Continue reading

June 16, 2014
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Education Scotland’s support for learning, teaching and assessment in the sciences

Education Scotland has produced a suite of documents to support learning, teaching and assessment of the sciences from early to third level. First we have the Sciences Principles and Practice Paper, essential reading which: details the purposes of learning within … Continue reading

June 6, 2014
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Glasgow Science Centre, the Hidden Universe 17th-19th June 2014

The deep space of the hidden universe is so unimaginably distant that until recently we didn’t have the capability to explore it. Take your own trip back in time and through space in the company of Dr Jonathan Whitmore, astrophysicist … 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

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