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Are you thinking of studying Nursing?
Nursing is a subject that has changed a great deal in recent years. While once you could become a nurse as a school leaver, now registering with the Nursing and Midwifery Council requires a degree (though A-level requirements for Nursing are usually reasonably low). The scope of the duties required of a nurse are very...
10 Oxford Donors and How They Made Their Money
The University of Oxford has a long and rich history of philanthropic donations. Last year, the university revealed it raised more than £2bn over the course of a 10-year campaign – that’s more than the GDP of the Maldives. There were some multi-million pound donations that contributed to that huge total, but a lot of...
Are you thinking of studying Music?
Between 2007/8 and 2010/11 the number of students applying to study music rose by almost half, to more than 5,000 – considerably higher than the overall increase in student numbers over that time period.
Even with the recession biting, then, Music remains a popular choice of degree. For its people, it represents a chance to...
The 6 Levels of Educational Complexity and How to Use Them
The abstract concepts of educational psychology can be surprisingly useful for students. There have been many different attempts to classify students’ levels of understanding in order of difficulty by different educational psychologists. These range from Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking Skills, to the DIKW pyramid, to the somewhat daunting 16 tiers of Michael Commons’ Model of...
Are you thinking of studying Medicine?
Medicine is notoriously one of the toughest, most competitive and most prestigious degree courses available. Med students can have a workload that’s double that of some of their peers (yes, including independent study) for five or more years of being an undergraduate – plus further study after that to reach the point where they’re allowed...
Are you thinking of studying Mathematics?
Mathematics students have a lot of reasons to feel pleased with themselves. Mathematics graduates are constantly in short supply, they have a plethora of well-paid and stable careers to choose from (until civilisation collapses, we will always need accountants) and in undergraduate my-degree-is-better-than-your-degree contests, they have a fairly good chance of winning. What’s more, though […]
15 Skills and Achievements That Will Look Good on Any CV
When you’re applying for your very first job, your CV can feel a little bare. On the one hand, no one expects a teenager to have achieved a huge amount or have years of experience in the field. Your CV is mostly going to consist of things you’ve done at school and some general points […]
All Chemistry is Driven by Physics
About the author Philippa Logan read Natural Sciences (specialising in Chemistry) at Newnham College, Cambridge. ‘All science is either physics or stamp collecting.’ So said Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics. And it’s true that Biology is based on Chemistry, which in turn is based on Physics – and this continuum can easily be […]
4 Ways to Come Up With a Great Essay Idea
One of the most exciting and challenging parts of moving forward through your academic career is the increasing amount of freedom you get to decide what you want to write about. It starts when you first get a choice of which question you want to answer, which might even first happen in primary school. Part […]