Are Electric Cars Really The Future?

Are Electric Cars Really The Future?

Electric cars have been steadily growing in popularity, especially in the past year. There are currently around 300,000 purely electric cars on the road in the UK and 2020 saw a 66% growth in the electric car market compared to 2019.* As well as being a cleaner option...
Making The Leap From GCSE To A-Levels

Making The Leap From GCSE To A-Levels

How Wide Is The Gap? Picture this: you’re well on the way with your GCSE (or IGCSE) courses and you feel comfortable with the feedback you are receiving. Things are good; TMAs are going well; your tutors are pleased – and then you need to start thinking about the next...
How to Educate for The Green Revolution

How to Educate for The Green Revolution

Green revolution is coming. Even traditionally conservative thinkers are beginning to come around. It isn’t just that it needs to come to prevent the extinction of life on earth (a compelling motivator for change), but also that green energy will soon make economic...
Is ‘Lab-Grown’ the Future of Meat?

Is ‘Lab-Grown’ the Future of Meat?

Red meat consumption in the UK has fallen by almost one third in the past ten years. There are many concerns over current farming practices, such as the treatment of animals, methane production of cattle herds, water usage and energy efficiency. Yet the public still...
Synesthesia

Synesthesia

Talking about and considering the spectrum of diversity within a learning environment is a vitally important aspect of education provision. There have been many articles written about the difficulties that students and teachers face when finding ways to receive and...
Does 2020 mark the Demise of the Handshake?

Does 2020 mark the Demise of the Handshake?

Cultural ‘coming together’ is a complex dance. When we meet ‘another’ the underlying cultural expectations and norms can set up our entire experience of this new entity before we speak or even know who they are. In much of ‘western’ culture, for possibly the...