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Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...determination, being organised, etc. Study skills, e.g. essay writing, effective reading, etc. Motivation, e.g. interest in subject, strong, weak, etc. Circumstances, e.g. lack of space to study, access to a computer, etc., and how you handled them Having recorded your reasons for studying, you need to reflect on what factors might help or hinder your achieving your...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...determined by human action. The Bengal famine started after crops failure in the EIC-ruled regions due to the failure of the monsoon in 1769, after only light rain the previous year. There had been bad harvests in 1737–8 without famine, indeed there had not been a similar event since the Mughal conquest of Bengal two hundred years earlier. The severity of the famine can...
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...determine how much lenders will provide when you apply for a mortgage...Understanding mortgages: 1 Getting a mortgage: how much can I borrow? - Before making an offer to buy a property you need to know how much your lender will be prepared to advance you and on what terms. Getting at least an indication of what you can borrow makes sense before you make an offer....
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...determine the ways and the extent to which they continue to give you their support. You may rarely meet your donors or supporters in person. The whole asking–giving relationship is often formed and developed at a distance. That distance means that your work with donors and supporters has to tackle some apparently irreconcilable demands. To be effective you must be able...
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...determination in people and in communities in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way while acting on their own authority. The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2020) breaks down the concept of community empowerment as follows: Community empowerment refers to the process of enabling communities to increase control over...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...determining what we mean by ‘English’. If we want to study its development, its use and its status, it’s worth clarifying exactly what it is. From one perspective, of course, this may seem a rather empty task. Given that you are reading this course – and are therefore presumably a fluent English reader – English is very likely to be almost as integral a part of...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...determine how much there is of a quantity involve measurement. Things are measured for a variety of different reasons, but in everyday life this is usually to find out how big, how long or how heavy something is, or its volume, length or mass. For these numbers to have any meaning, you need to specify what units the measurement is in. If you were told that it was...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...determining which families got offered support and how. The staff here were very flexible with their part-time hours. And, you know, let's face it, they nearly always worked longer hours than they were paid for. No formal record of that, of course. But I just know from informal chats and keeping an eye on things myself, they kept really minimal notes of their interactions...