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How Can Students Develop Resilience?
Today’s young people face unprecedented mental health challenges. Never has it been more important that we understand...
The Ultimate Guide To Summer Internships
What is an internship? There are so many productive things you can do with your school holidays, and an...
10 Books Every Law Student Should Read
If you're preparing to apply to Law courses at university, you're probably doing everything you can to make sure your personal statement stands out. Have you considered taking an online Law course for 15-18 year olds? Check out ours here. You'll often be told...
The Once and Future Norm
Things must not have been as good as they seemed. Because we already know we aren’t going back to them - even once we can. A collective casualty of Covid is our old way of life. Once Covid is resolved through vaccines, herd immunity, or accepted numbers of deaths in...
Why Is Shakespeare Still Important?
William Shakespeare is (arguably) the most recognisable name in English literature. And even if you haven’t heard of him, you’ll know about some of his plays, like Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet. Even beyond that, if you’ve ever seen an actor chatting to a skull, or...
The Lessons of Covid School
Education is a lifelong process, and every single one of us is now in Covid school. What do we do with a plague that became a quarantine that became a school? It can be hard to distinguish between Covid and his lessons, between the suffering of plague and the...
Five Tips for Productive Study at Home
Even for the most productive amongst us, working from home can often be a challenge. The temptation to stay in pyjamas, just finish watching that one episode or treat ourselves to an extra hour in bed can be a hard habit to quit. However, these tips and tricks ensure...
Navigating Home Study – How to Support Your Child During Quarantine
In the current climate surrounding Covid-19, it is understandable that both students and parents should be worried about the uncertain state of academia. For most parents, the closure of schools has raised worries about how to support children who are studying at...
Three Things I Learned in the Scholastica Discussion Group
I was really lucky to attend the Oxford Scholastica Academy back in 2017 as part of the Creative Writing Summer School. In one of our classes, our teacher introduced us to an article by William Deresiewiez, discussing the disadvantages students face at an ‘elite’...
The Psychology of Success: How Can Students Harness Their Own Psychology To Maximise Their Potential?
Imagine I could whisper thoughts about you directly into your mind. Whatever I whispered, you would believe about yourself. How would you feel about my having this power? If your answer would depend on what I would say, what does that make you think about what you...
How A High School Summer Programme Might Benefit Your College Application
It’s well known that colleges receive more applications than places. At top institutions in the United States such as Harvard and Stanford University, less than 5% of applicants successfully gained places in 2017. This means your application needs to be really strong...