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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...Write down your answer in the box below. Part 2 A safe bet in answering this kind of question is to ask well-renowned experts on the topic, for example the research team of the Bank of England. Watch the following video on money creation in the modern economy. Once you have finished watching the video, use the box below to write notes on how money is created in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...write a book about Hijab, the word in the Arabic calligraphic art on the cover. ‘Veil’ has no single Arabic linguistic referent, whereas Hijab has cultural and linguistic roots that are integral to Islamic (and Arab) culture as a whole. But the publisher preferred Veil to Hijab for reader accessibility and familiarity. From a marketing angle, the publisher rightly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...writing since the rise of women’s history in the 1960s, debate has focused on whether or not the New Woman actually existed. In their discussions, the First World War has acquired a central place. Discussions have referred to the range of occupations that women entered during the war, as well as the challenges that war presented to traditional conceptions of both...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...Write out phrases or sentences it appears in as you come across them (perhaps with one page for each of the four past participle endings). You could also invent short dialogues using past participles that have the same ending: the rhyme may help you to memorise them. There is an example of this technique in the next activity, where we have used only monosyllabic past...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...write out a cheque for £50,000 without wincing or consulting anyone. These general points have two important implications for your work. The first is that seeking major contributions has a very different feel from many other resource-winning and support-winning processes. The second is that you must always have a big gift focus in your work. It is not just an orientation...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...writing that such money is a gift. Without this the lender may assume the money is a loan and include it in the affordability testing (with the risk that this will end up cutting the size of the mortgage they will advance to you). Over time you may move on to a new home (and therefore a new mortgage). Keeping down the LTV will then become easier. This is because the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...writing, if a learner is already familiar with the sounds to which the letters can correspond: for instance, that the phoneme ‘k’ can correspond to the letters ‘c’ as in ‘curtain’, ‘k’ as in ‘kilo’ and ‘q’ as in ‘queen’. Once this code has been ‘cracked’ for one language, it is easier to apply those principles of matching to another...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...write down a few of the reasons that you can think of. The next sections unpack some of the factors that you may have written down...Session 1: Promoting the health of all children: 2.1 Factors that influence babies and children’s health - There are many factors that can influence children’s health, either in a positive or negative way. Some of the factors are within...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs