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How To Write An English Essay

Writing an essay is hard. Sometimes it is very hard. Sometimes you want nothing more than to throw your pen (or your laptop) out of the window, bury your head in a pillow and scream for a little while. Or go to sleep. As a graduate of an English Literature degree, and someone who loves both reading and writing to [...]

A Year Abroad in Paris

Ten of the most strenuous and challenging months of my existence finally ended two years ago, and I left Paris, my first home away from home, howling, teary-eyed, on the Eurostar from Paris Gare du Nord to King’s Cross St Pancras. Tomorrow! I thought this day would never come. Now it’s here and everyday since I’ve wanted to turn back [...]

Art & Science: Beyond The Balance

Careers in the arts and careers in the sciences have long been thought of divergent with little chance for overlap. Nowadays, however, there are a considerable number of jobs requiring high technical skills as well as a penchant for thinking out of the box. While the arts offer an outlet for creativity, they can also provide invaluable perspective on the [...]

A Beginner’s Guide To Reading Scientific Papers

 One major step from the sixth form to university, I have found particularly difficult to grapple with, is the amount of reading. In school and college it was expected that you read and study primarily from textbooks deemed at the appropriate level for the curriculum. In university however, there is less of a distinction. For those [...]

Life After School, Does It Live Up To The Dream?

We spend a lot of our school life wondering what our path in life should be. Our whole world revolves around doing the best in our exams, and it falls apart if we don’t do as well as we’d hoped. Then there’s the quandary of what career we want to do. At this point, it seems like life starts to [...]

The Power Of Teaching

. "Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." – Anthony J. D'Angelo When being asked to write a blog about the subjects I love to teach, I began looking back over my days in education, from a timid Primary School kid to a confident Master’s graduate and self-confessed Shakespeare ‘addict’. It got me thinking [...]

Deep Thinking

Recently, I watched an inspiring online talk by physics genius, Jacob Barnett. He struck a chord with me when talking about education and his message was a simple one; study less and think more. At first, I was a little stunned at his blatancy in advocating students to effectively ‘stop learning’ but, post-contemplation, I realised that [...]

Revision Advice

Exam periods can be a source of dread for students, raising unhelpful doubts about your ability and leading to unnecessarily elevated stress levels. However, it does not need to be this way. Following these simple pieces of revision advice, you can maximise your potential and minimise your stress, ultimately leading to much greater exam success.  

Organised Revision

The absolute key to effective [...]

Learning From Failure

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy

The most important lesson I’ve learnt surrounding failure is that what you may perceive as failure in comparison to other people may be two different things. As individuals we all work based on our personal aspirations which may or may not be influenced by important people and role [...]

University: the Midlands or the Netherlands ?

When most teenagers are asked where they want to go to university, the replies are often predictable and similar. A rattling off of extremely well known Russel Group universities such as Edinburgh, UCL, Bristol and so on are common place amongst sixth-form students. However it is very rare that someone will mention anywhere that is outside of the UK. Albeit [...]