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...study this module, she would be interested in studying courses to help her better understand her home town of Folkestone, Kent. Her main motivation for this is that she would like to develop a better understanding of the local area. She would consider studying the OpenLearn courses below to help her discover and understand more about the following: The sea and the local...

...studied for decades, with research indicating a clear correlation between these three strands, often linked to the amount of reading undertaken (e.g., Wigfield and Guthrie, 1997; Hebbecker et al, 2019). Many psychological researchers, viewing reading as an individual endeavor, highlight extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. Others, looking through a broader social-cultural...

...skills; my parents however, were not averse to their daughters pursuing careers. Additionally, during that era, my father emphasised that an educated woman had a much better prospect of marriage than an uneducated one. The teacher training college was located quite a distance from my immediate home so the prospect of leaving home and all my friends and family was daunting...

...skills...Find out more about The Open University’s Open degree qualification. The Harrison Centre for Social Mobility was set up in 2017 by David Harrison, one of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs and Chairman of UK financial technology firm True Potential LLP. David achieved an MBA through The Open University and in 2013, he established a formal partnership between True...