By KATE PICKLES, Edinburgh Evening News
For stargazing students, it’s a course which is proving to be out of this world. Classes in “astrobiology and the search for extra-terrestrial life” are among six modules which have seen more than 300,000 new enrolments at Edinburgh University – each taking in lessons from the comfort of their own home. The institution’s free remote learning courses have proved an international hit, with the number of people signing up rising by 50 per cent in just two months. Professor Charles Cockell said the response to his lectures in the hunt for aliens had left him overwhelmed. He said: “I think people are interested in the history of life on Earth and whether there could be life elsewhere, but I was surprised by the response.
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