By the time you reach the end of your A-Levels you’ll have been in continuous education for over a decade. Many people choose to stay on the education treadmill to university, but a lot of others decide to take a gap year. It’s not hard to see why this is...
Your brain is more complex than any computer ever invented. It carries out millions of processes every day and to run efficiently, it needs the right kind of fuel. When preparing for exams – GCSE, A-level – or any kind of event where you have to be on fighting...
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (or Chanukah) is celebrated over eight days and nights, starting on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev. This year, that falls on Sunday 22nd December. ‘Hanukkah’ is the Hebrew word for ‘dedication’. The festival was given this...
At the age of 18, we will have been in compulsory state learning for three quarters of our lives. It can therefore be overwhelming, when we reach the end of our A-Levels, to find that, suddenly, we can decide if we want to continue studying. Some students are not...
This year, between 23rd November and 1st December, Britain will be holding National Tree Week. This annual event aims to encourage the people of the UK to plant as many new trees as possible. First introduced in 1975, the initiative began as a response to the...
Alex Osborn, the father of the brainstorming method, believed that group brainstorming could lead to a 50% increase in creativity. Osborn published several books throughout his lifetime, and one of his most well-known is How To Think Up (1942), which explores the...
