Top 5 Work Abroad Opportunities for Your Gap Year
Q: What do Steve Jobs, Nigella Lawson, Hugh Jackman, Prince William and Malia Obama all have in common? A: All of them have taken a gap year.
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The 7 Best Musical Instruments to Learn On Your Own
Music is food for soul. Through the ages, it has been used to express emotions that words on their cannot do sufficient justice. When you are on a long drive, getting bored on a subway, strenuously working out, jogging, or having dinner with friends, music brightens up everyday life.
Top 14 Tips on How to Budget As a Student
Have you been feeling broke lately? Are you behind on bills that you just can’t seem to catch up, you live on instant noodles as they save time and money, and you have to pay back friends for the meals they bought you the last time you met… You can’t figure out how to go […]
How To Prepare For Your Gap Year Abroad
After years of studying and numerous tests and exams, you are finally done with high school. It is time for college – which means slaving over more course-books and sitting through dozens more exams. Are you quite ready for it or do you want to take a break?
7 Home-based Business Ideas for Teens and How to Successfully Run Them
There are many compelling reasons why a teenager needs to start working. First of all, they realize the importance of money and savings by earning through their own hard-work. Secondly, they learn to grow independent and don’t rely on their parents for each and everything. Unfortunately, it is a double-edged sword.
9 Essential Life Skills Every Child Should Have by Age 12
No sane person in the world would want any harm to come across their child. For parents, it is only natural to shield their kids from various vices of the society.
8 Ideas to Incorporate STEAM Learning into Everyday Experiences
Education experts encourage the incorporation of STEAM learning from early childhood. If you work in the education sector, are a parent or a guardian of a child, then you would have probably heard of STEM – the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
Collaborative Blogging as a Reflective Learning Tool
Blogging or web logging has long been used as a journaling method; the recording of one’s written thoughts and sharing it to the public space.
Hack Your Learning: The 16 Best Books on Learning and Achieving Academically
I have always been a firm believer that each of our brains are highly individual; that we each have highly personalised skills and abilities that more suited for some fields of study and expertise compared to others.
How To Ace That Exam: Optimising Learning
Following on the heels of our recent article on Examinations we focus now on something all students should be taught but unfortunately aren’t, that is ‘How to Learn’.
The Case for Exams
Since time immemorial, examinations have been used as a measure of academic success. Ancient Chinese folklore tell many tales of country youth, in their abiding desire to better themselves and their fates, head to the then-capital of Peking to sit the Imperial exams, to join the ranks of the elite Government.
Amazing Board Games for Learning Serious Science
Almost everyone remembers family evenings gathered around a board game of Monopoly or Cluedo, trading, planning, calculating… in so many ways, board games make up an essential part of childhood with most associated memories being fun, fun and more fun.
How to Reference
When I taught in Tertiary Education, one of the biggest challenges, I and many of my colleagues faced was plagiarism by students across all years of their Undergraduate studies.
Tutoring Good or Bad…
Tutoring Good or Bad… Possibly depends on where you are in the world As I read this BBC article (Meet the ‘tutor kings and queens’) yesterday, I was not really surprised at the success of these ‘Tutors’ in the East. After all, having been born and bred in Malaysia, where private tutoring has always had […]