Life Skills

The key purpose of this module is to help you develop your entrepreneurial attitudes, apptitudes, skills as well as personal qualities that can be crucial in management of future challenges and opportunities, and hopefully starting your own business.

By the end of this module, learners should be able to:

• Acquire skills and knowledge necessary for starting enterprises.
• Cultivate positive attitudes toward self-employment
• Equip themselves with problem-solving skills that will enable them to manage their own business.
• Think outside the box and nurture unconvential skills for future use.
• Think creatively and differently about the opportunities and challenges in society.

Do you get stressed at the thought of an examination? Does the idea of revision fill you with dread? This unit will provide a host of tips to help you improve your revision and examination techniques and enable you to manage your time effectively by creating a timetable for your revision.

A chapter on study skills from the textbook, Communication Skills, developed by the Language Communication for Development Department at the Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi.

A chapter on using the College Library from the textbook, Communication Skills, developed by the Language Communication for Development Department at the Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi.

A chapter on examination skills from the textbook, Communication Skills, developed by the Language Communication for Development Department at the Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi.

This resources covers goal setting - looking at setting long term and short term goals and integrating these with your skills and abilities in order to develop your learning strategy

This textbook has been designed to support students who are studying Communication during the first semester of the first year. This textbook has been created by lecturers from the University of Malawi - Bunda College of Agriculture. The intention of the Communication Skills course and this textbook is to provide students new to tertiary education, with the prerequisite language skills required to excel in the higher education environment. To this end the course's objectives are:

All students at BCA on completion of the Communication Skills course should be able to:

• use study techniques to process, store and use the information and skills taught in
• their subjects;
• apply the various systems and processes used by the institutional library to search
• and retrieve information;
• listen actively and create accurate comprehensive and accurate notes;
• read books and resources and retain the information gleaned therein;
• express themselves clearly using the written word;
• perform well in examinations and tests.

A chapter on study skills from the textbook, Communication Skills, developed by the Language Communication for Development Department at the Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi.

A chapter on listening skills from the textbook, Communication Skills, developed by the Language Communication for Development Department at the Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi.

A chapter on writing skills from the textbook, Communication Skills, developed by the Language Communication for Development Department at the Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi.

A chapter on examination skills from the textbook, Communication Skills, developed by the Language Communication for Development Department at the Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi.