Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017

The programme for EIFF Youth Hub 2017 is now live! Now in its fourth year, EIFF Youth Hub returns for four days packed with free practical filmmaking workshops, masterclasses and events for 15-25 year-olds. Whether you want to gain insights into animation or screenwriting, learn from experienced filmmakers about acting, cinematography or short filmmaking, or if you just want to network and step into a career in film – Youth Hub has

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EXCHANGE – Be Seen – Be Heard – Be Inspired: An event for young people interested in the music industry

This unique event provides an excellent opportunity for young people interested in a career in the music industry from production to performance and connect with key people in the sector! Date:   Friday 2 June 2017 Venue: SWG3, Glasgow CALL OUT FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS    Registration for the day and sign-up for performance opportunities is now open: www.mfy.org.uk/exchange  The deadline for performance sign-ups is Monday, 1st May. Aspiring young musicians from across

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Labour market information inspires curriculum change in the Western Isles

Over the last years a long-term education:economic strategy has been put in place that applies Labour Market Information (LMI) to enhance ‘Personalisation and Choice’ in senior phase and drive forward curriculum change. As a result the Western Isles have achieved significantly improved SQA vocational education attainment, greater equity of provision, a local economically-relevant curriculum and increased positive, sustained destination rates for young people. LMI-identified maritime industries are a key sector

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Save the Children Resilience Project

  Save the Children are looking for two schools to take part in a resilience project that aims to strengthen children’s understanding of emergencies and the actions they can take to prepare themselves, their families and their communities.  Click here for more information on the project .  It is aimed at children aged 9 – 11 and participating schools will be given a £1000 budget. You can also contact Graham

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Professional learning workshops from OPAL, SEPA and Ricardo Energy

Free professional learning workshops available for practitioners at Hillpark Secondary School, Glasgow on 25th November 4 – 6pm. Come along and learn about air pollution, how to use data about air quality in your classes and finding indicator species such as lichen in your local area! Sign up using our simple survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/AirQualityCPD

We can’t afford not to be creative!

A key message from the recent Attaining Creative Solutions event was that if we want to engage learners, close the attainment gap and help young people develop the skills they need in order to thrive in an unpredictable and fast changing world, we can’t afford not to be creative. This National Creative Learning Network event brought together senior education staff and practitioners from local authorities across Scotland with operational and

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National Women in Engineering Day 23rd June 2015

  National Women in Engineering Day was set up by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and is dedicated to raising the profile and celebrating the achievements of women in engineering. Encouraging girls into engineering careers will not only increase diversity and inclusion but help to fill the substantial future job opportunities that have been predicted in this sector. The idea behind National Women in Engineering Day is to encourage all

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Citizen Science workshops for East Ayrshire Council practitioners

Citizen Science workshops for East Ayrshire Council practitioners: St. Joseph’s Academy, Kilmarnock 5th May 3:45pm Mauchline Primary, Mauchline 6th May 3:45pm Citizen science is an exciting way of engaging learners with real-life science in the world around them. Schools across Scotland are undertaking important scientific work, collecting data and using that data to improve their own environment or passing the data to the scientific community. Some great examples of this can be see with the

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Weather and Climate Change Glow Meet

Holidaying in Ibiza or even backpacking across Europe was not an option last summer for four inspirational undergraduate students from all across Scotland, who spurned the ordinary and instead single-handedly organised an extraordinary trip to the Arctic. The main purpose of the trip was to study how climate change is affecting the landscape and the people of the Arctic. Team leader, Cameron MacKay, was motivated to go on the trip

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It’s an early bee count!

It’s an early bee count! Find out about bees and why they are important. Encourage them into your school grounds and local environment and learn about the role they play in local ecosystems. Different bees fly at different times. This year the Great British Bee Count will be looking at bees that appear earlier in the year. So on Friday 1st May get ready to download the new bee spotting app

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