Parliamentary Studies: UK and Scottish Parliament

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15 May 2024
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This list has been prepared to support students enrolled in the Parliamentary Studies Module offered through 23 approved universities. Parliamentary Studies is a higher education module which is co-taught by university tutors and officials from the Houses of Parliament. It is the only higher education module formally approved by the Houses of Parliament. The module provides students with a detailed knowledge of how Parliament works in both theory and practice. It is delivered through a collaboration between the Houses of Parliament and a UK higher education institution; the institution provides academic and theoretical content, and Parliament provides practical teaching about the work, processes and business of Parliament.


FAI: Fraser of Allander Institute · 12 September 2016 English

The whole issue of ‘governance’ is not the highest profile or at first blush most fascinating of topics. Nevertheless I was and remain convinced that appropriate and effective governance is …


EU: European Union · 8 April 2024 English

The present guide was created by the ELI Taskforce and is aimed at developers or project managers who want to implement ELI into their legal publishing systems. The ELI Taskforce …



SHRC: Scottish Human Rights Commission · 8 March 2024 English

The Commission’s work over the course of the pandemic raised the following: • Privacy rights engaged in the scoping of ‘Vaccine Certificates’ and the implications of digital contact tracing technology.9 …



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The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is the national human rights institution for Scotland. It was established by an Act of the Scottish Parliament and started its work in 2008. …


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The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for Crown Dependencies and British …


The House of Lords, formally The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, is the upper house …


Parliamentary procedure is the body of ethics, rules, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies, and other deliberative assemblies. In the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, …