We hope all our Edinburgh Napier University students and staff had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s with some time to relax and catch up with friends and family. With the festivities now over, you might be thinking that it’s time to make some resolutions and get back into that ‘serious study mode’. It’s also […]
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Despite Covid, Tokyo hosts the delayed summer Olympics of 2020 this month representing the ultimate challenge to the world’s top athletes. Organisers estimate some 11,000 athletes, from 205 countries will compete in 330 events in 28 sports in front of TV audiences numbering billions. Today’s intense interest, however, contrasts markedly with the more haphazard nature of the very first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896. Reproduction of the cover of the 1896 Olympics Official Report (Olympic Studies Centre) Then, 300 competitors, all men and mostly local, took part in 43 events in athletics, cycling, swimming, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, gymnastics, shooting and lawn tennis. These sports, with the […]
Our Sighthill Campus is home to two schools, the School of Applied Sciences and the School of Health & Social Care. . Serving more than 5,000 students and staff, facilities include the wards, labs and the [EN]GAGE sports centre.
