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Languages to Learn to Get Ahead in Business

In today’s ever-growing global economy, learning another language may also significantly benefit you in business. Here’s how…


Shakespeare's Plays

Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players: Act 2

A regular verse line is one that fits neatly into this structure. However, Shakespeare often breaks this rule, adding or removing syllables, creating irregular lines. This is choice, not accident.


Shakespeare's Plays

Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players: Act 1

Even if we struggle to understand the words, there are clues within the verse structure that can assist us.


Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Expanding Horizons: Culture, Tradition and Innovation in Abu Dhabi…

Culture, Tradition and Innovation are three of the foundations of this city.


Freewriting

10 Tips to Stay Calm on Exam Day

Here are 10 tips to help you calm your nerves so that you can perform to the best of your ability.


Prison Education can prevent reoffending.

Prison Education Stops Reoffending

In most prisons, tutors predominantly aim to structure their classes in a way that favours group work.


J K Rowling's

JK Rowling’s Retrospective Inclusivity

Should ground-breaking literature be so easily edited and redefined at the whim of an author, or left alone once it hits shelves?


effective learner

A Quick Guide to Answering Different Types of Essay Questions

Here is a quick guide to some of the most common types of essay questions.


Amsterdam

Expanding Horizons: 5 quirky sides to Amsterdam you might not have heard of

Amsterdam actually has more canals than Venice and is therefore dubbed the Venice of the North.


Multitasking badly on the phone

Multitasking during online studies – Help or hindrance?

As exciting as being constantly connected to the world may be, our increasingly digitally- lived lives are making us more distant, drained and distracted than ever


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