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Robert Cronshaw describes eight fascinating practicals you will do in your medical degree and explains the science behind them. Being a medical student isn’t all about reading textbooks or sitting through long lectures; a significant proportion of your time will be spent doing practicals. These are a great chance to consolidate what you have learned...

History is full of scientists who discovered amazing things, and then languished in obscurity, or saw someone else take the credit for their work. Sometimes they were simply overlooked. Sometimes they were the victims of prejudice and discrimination. In other cases, scientists saw the credit for their discoveries deliberately stolen by others. For many of...

In the short term, linguistic changes can feel annoying. After all, what a linguistic looking at the long-term picture might perceive as changes can look to people living through them simply as errors. If you were writing an essay, you wouldn’t start sentences with prepositions, refer to authors whose books you’re referencing by their first...

You’ve done it. You’ve extracted the key research, peppered your content with incisive observations, and you’ve just typed the last words of your Law essay conclusion. And then… it happens. You remember that in all those pages of research, you forgot to reference the sources you used. If only you’d done it in the first...

One of the hardest times for a parent is when your child is away from home. Whether they’re away for just a couple of weeks at a summer school, or they’re going to a boarding school year-round, it’s a time when you want to be able to support them, but – by definition – you...

You can’t ignore the fact that essays are part of getting anywhere you want to go in life. If you want to gain the grades to get into your dream university, you need to know the importance of essays, and how to excel in your exam essays. If you’re a primary school student who wants...

If you have a fascination with language or the way that the stories we tell shape our culture, ethics and values, an English degree may well be perfect for you. Whatever people may think, it isn’t just about reading books (although that will take up a substantial part of your time). You’ll learn valuable analytical...

There are countless novels for which London is a backdrop, but the city is much less often a focus of fiction. Many of Agatha Christie’s Poirot novels are set in London, but despite how famous they are, they seldom turn up in lists of London novels. Similarly, The Picture of Dorian Gray is set in...

From its foundation (lost in the mists of time) all the way until 1879, no women were allowed to study at the University of Oxford. Even then, it took until 1920 for women to be permitted to become full members of the university, and until 1948 for a woman to be appointed to a full...