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Top tips for learning Latin

Latin is a language, As dead as dead can be, It killed the Ancient Romans, And now it’s killing me. If you’re studying Latin at any school established in the last century or two, you may well have come across motivational words like these, possibly scrawled on the inside cover of your textbook, or carved into your desk like years numbered on a [...]

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How To Choose an Audition Monologue

Read the play This is crucial. The internet is packed with monologues. Some are written solely as a stand alone monologue and are not even from a play. Don't choose them. They are often not that well written and many people think that to perform one is an easy option, precisely because then, they don't need to read a play. If [...]

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How To Understand a Play Text

Reading and understanding a play is different to a novel. A novelist often describes the world and the people they are writing about in a lot of detail. Often there are physical details of people, places and things. They do a lot of work for you so that you can access a full visual picture. They also explore the emotional [...]

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HR for Non HR Professionals Blog – Making use of Practical Knowledge

Welcome, in my new Blog series for Non HR Professionals I intend to focus on enhancing skills and practice knowledge. Students can then tackle HR subjects with superior confidence. My subsequent blogs will cover: • Realise the implications of Employment Legislation on your Organisation • Recruitment questions & pitfalls • Learn the appropriate codes of conduct • Improve your absence management • Management style v Leadership • Your team‘s [...]

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How to get an A* instead of an A in your essays:

We’ve all been there, it’s 11pm (or 5am for you lovers of all-nighters out there), you’ve worked hard to finish your essay. After long lulls of soul-searching for arguments, endless minutes of fastidious focus and wasteful wanderings around your room, library and mind…. you’ve finished! You even managed to write the hardest part of the essay – the paragraph before [...]

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HRM Blog - Intersections for HR Practitioners

Welcome, in my new Blog series I intend to focus on the intersection subjects that challenge HR Practitioners. These are the human resource management topics that intersect the dual nature of Human Resources (HR). The HR Professional’s role is both to protect “the employer from legal claim” and the “employee’s human rights”, to be a Trusted Advisor to Executive Management [...]

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THE ART OF STUDYING:

Do you find yourself studying really hard and memorising all these notes for an exam, but then not getting the grades to reflect it? During my own time in education, I found that the main difference between those who succeeded in exams and those who didn't do as well was all down to the term "understanding". This is a deep topic [...]

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IF YOU FAIL TO PLAN THEN YOU ARE PLANNING FOR FAILURE....

Planning is a life skill to get the most out of our time and to do tasks more efficiently, so it should apply to our studies as well right? Take a look at the puzzle piece taken from a messy pile in the image slider above. Imagine every puzzle piece being a task that lies ahead for your day, or a [...]

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ENGLISH GRAMMAR - THE PROBLEM IN THE UK:

I have recently completed a course called Teaching English Foreign Language (TEFL). During the course, I was at an in-classroom learning session and found that foreigners who learnt the English Language had better grammar on average than a native English learner. Don't worry, it is not entirely your fault if you feel that your grammar is not up to scratch. [...]

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5 Steps to Effective Exam Technique

. 1. Reading and understanding the question. -Take your time to read the question properly. -Read it several times if you have to. -Underline the command words. -Underline the key terms. 2. Planning your answer. -Make a short plan for essays - this will really help your essay have good structure. -Your plan should indicate the main point for each main body paragraph and the order of [...]

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