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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...
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...
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...
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...
Life As A Medical Student
What to Expect and How to Prepare Whether you’ve just made the decision that you want to pursue a career in medicine or you just got accepted into medical school (congratulations!), you’re probably wondering what life as a medical student is like. What is it...
Mock Clinics: What Is The Medicine Challenge?
All of our summer courses here at the Oxford Scholastica Academy include a Challenge. These Challenges allow you to put everything you’ve learned over the course of the program into practice. If you’re taking part in one of our Medicine summer school courses, you’ll...
7 Books Every Medical Student Should Read
Anatomy and physiology textbooks will likely be at your side during your medical studies, and you’ll be reading through countless scientific papers. But whether you’re already studying medicine, are about to start, or are still thinking about it, you might want to...
The Ultimate Guide To Postgraduate Study
What is postgraduate study? Postgraduate study is further study after your undergraduate degree, which could be a bachelor’s or integrated master’s degree. Some postgraduate courses require you to have particular undergraduate degrees, others don’t. There are...