In the current political and social climate, which is riven with mudslinging and division, it is hardly surprising that Anti-Bullying Week is still an essential date on every school calendar. Naturally, when children and teenagers see adults, particularly in positions of power, acting as though they were back in the schoolyard, copycat behaviour is…
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Like Steven Spielberg’s movie Minority Report, the pandemic has catapulted us into a futuristic world for which some have been better prepared than others. The digital age has, of course, been a creeping reality for some time. So much so that many of us might be surprised to learn from the European Commission’s Education…
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Like it or not, we are all a product of our past – the upswings and the downturns and the manner in which we deal with both. We study history at school, university and beyond as a sort of collective therapy – to trace the twists and turns in the roadmap that has brought us…
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There was a time when a normal conversation about mental health was unthinkable; when there was only one answer expected of you when asked how you were: “I’m fine.” Boys in particular have long been discouraged from expressing more sensitive feelings while anger has a history of being frowned upon in girls. In both instances,…
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In recent years, extra curricular activities have been on a vertiginous upward trajectory not only in terms of popularity but also in terms of the importance they are given by universities and employers. In more normal circumstances, children as young as four complete the day with a variety of pursuits that bring them experiences beyond…
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One of Britain’s trademarks has been the number of explorers it has produced. From Mary Kingsley who travelled to Sierra Leone and Angola in the 1900s to study local customs and examine flora and fauna to Sir Ranulph Fiennes who is credited by The Guinness Book of Records as being the world’s greatest living explorer,…
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Of all the years students have returned to school following their summer break, this will unquestionably be one of the most memorable. After months of lockdown, summer came as a welcome release and open air and greater freedom of movement were embraced with unprecedented enthusiasm. Now, while many students are keen to get back to…
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Writing a good essay is a skill that combines syntactical discipline with a capacity for structured thought, but if you thought it was an art that has been lost now, in this age of hash tags and emails, think again. Back in 1874, more than half of first-year students at Harvard University failed an…
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Graduating from school is undoubtedly one of the most significant milestones in our lives. When we begin the journey at the age of five or younger, it seems that moment of release will never come; and yet it does, even this year when much of what we take for granted has been swept off our…
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It is not often we have a chance to down tools and take stock of where we are, what we are doing and who we have become. Nor is there usually time to explore new avenues in our professional lives, honing a different skill set that will take us into the future. But, according to…
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