Best Ways To Revise

Best Ways To Revise

8.05.2013
We're pretty sure you've already been snowed under with revision tips from teachers, parents, your neighbour, your neighbour's cat, and...
'I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate'

'I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate'

23.04.2013
A video titled "I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate" has gone viral, reducing some viewers to tears and causing others to speak...
Vocational Qualifications To Be On Par With A-Levels

Vocational Qualifications To Be On Par With A-Levels

22.04.2013
Schools and colleges will be judged on how many sixth-formers gain good vocational qualifications, it was announced on Monday. Ministers...

Prospects of a Student in the 21st Century

15.04.2013
The excitement starts when applying to university, choosing a course and actually thinking about what you want to do. It is a life changing...
Teaching Kids to Kill Themselves and Also Their Best Friend: This Sick Madness Must Be Stopped

Teaching Kids to Kill Themselves and Also Their Best Friend: This Sick Madness Must Be Stopped

5.04.2013
In love? No one else approves? Clearly, suicide is the solution - but not until you've taken out your wife's cousin then her other cousin...
What's the Best Way to Revise? Cheat and Skive

What's the Best Way to Revise? Cheat and Skive

30.03.2013
Picture this: you're revising. But you're not entering the realm of despair, wondering about flights to South America or what you'd look...

The Impossible Act of Revision

6.03.2013
I cannot study. Simple as. It's just something I don't seem to be able to do and that is not a good trait to have as an A-Level student...

Ten of the Best Apps for Easter Revision

4.03.2013
The apps reviewed are excellent additional revision resources and learning aids and a lot of them are totally free. I would recommend that...
What Women Want: Engineering's Hidden Human Side?

What Women Want: Engineering's Hidden Human Side?

28.02.2013
I am not one to put faith in gender stereotypes, but with careers such as nursing, biological research and social work drawing a much higher...
When Procrastination Turns Into Laziness

When Procrastination Turns Into Laziness

26.02.2013
With more and more people being out of work for much longer periods of time, and by having nothing to do its looks as though the inability...
Can the United States Teach Us to Improve the Experience Our Universities Offer?

Can the United States Teach Us to Improve the Experience Our Universities Offer?

25.02.2013
American universities intentionally shape their year's intake. They seek out a diverse mix of alumni from varying backgrounds and cultures,...

The Future

2.02.2013
I guess it's a bad thing that in today's society 'The Future' is not seen as something positive or aspiring, but instead something you...

Choosing the Right Subjects at GCSE and A Level - 'Choices are the hinges of destiny'

31.01.2013
As the Head of Sixth Form at Akeley Wood School, which is part of the Cognita group, one of my key roles is to ensure that pupils are making...

How Can Teaching Boys Alongside Girls Better Prepare Pupils for the Realities of Life?

31.01.2013
As a boy in a boarding school myself many years ago, which was single sex until A levels, the arrival of girls in the sixth form was the...