203 research outputs found
Romance and resilience:the assets and ambition of Scottish ‘remote rural’ enterprise contexts
Distance Learning in Retrospect
This article describes the design and implementation of a long-term education project, a joint effort of the Service Employees International Union, Bunker Hill Community College, and nine Massachusetts community hospitals. The object was to offer an associate degree in medical radiography to eleven participants. Details of the funding source, admission process, curriculum, student support services, quality assurance, and problems and solutions are outlined. The authors offer recommendations for future replication
A Cause Still Unwon: the Struggle to Represent Scotland
From first paragraph: All that’s best in Britain An edition of Lilliput magazine2 from precisely the middle of the twentieth century carries an advertisement for the Standard Vanguard saloon. It is part of a series of advertisements featuring 'All that's best in Britain' and features a half-page, low-angle, upper-body colour shot of a piper in semi-profile, in full Highland military dress with bearskin hat and a white cockade; whose bagpipes fill most of the frame. Lit strongly to the face, he is framed against a background of blue sky
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