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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...determination to learn), or avoiding the challenge because of fears about the stigma of failure. Mind-sets manifest themselves in underlying changes in brain function: growth mind-sets have a brain signature which reflects greater use of all the brain’s resources, relative to the fixed mindset. (Knell and O’Mara, 2017, p.10) Your mindset – and specifically a growth...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...determines the distance between the target object and the radar station. The delay time is three-millionths of a second per kilometre and, although that sounds like a short time, it is easily possible to determine the distance between the emitting source and the reflecting object to within one metre. The strength of a radar echo depends on two factors - how far away the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...determine how taxes they paid were raised and spent, and to enjoy civil liberties. These rights and liberties were guaranteed by the ‘mixed’ English constitution, regarded by many contemporaries as the perfect balance between monarchical, aristocratic and democratic rule. The institutions of the monarchy, House of Lords and House of Commons represented each of these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...determine government policy on socially divisive issues. To spread responsibility for decision making, such that if there were problems at the implementation stage, responsibility would be shared between government and the public. To increase the authority of science and scientists, for example by explaining the importance of processes such as peer review and encouraging...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...determined, sequences to make different types of protein, including the 'structural proteins' that any particular species will need for its own muscle, skin, hair, etc. The order of the amino acids in the various proteins of the body is determined by the genes that the individual has inherited from its parents. Fat is broken down into its two components (glycerol and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...determine the challenge and how it will be addressed. The first step is to identify the challenges that need to be addressed by the organisation, network or movement. The second step is to prioritise which of the challenges to tackle and the third step is to consider the nature of the challenge and what approach to take to address it...Leadership challenges in turbulent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...determinants of health - First devised in 1991, the Dahlgren and Whitehead model of the social determinants of health (Figure 2) has become widely used and maps out the social, economic, environmental and lifestyle factors that can influence the health of a person. Individual factors are at the centre of the diagram while wider social, economic and other factors are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...determination of the basic long-term goals and objectives of an enterprise, and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for those goals.’ Andrews (1971) ‘Every business organisation, every sub-unit of an organisation and even every individual (ought to) have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals that keep it moving in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs