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The chances are that if you sat GCSEs, AS-Levels or A-Levels at any point over the past twenty years, you were part of a record breaking year for top grades and passes. There is also a very good chance that those in the year below you broke that record when they took those same exams. As such, there is an enormous chance that you, the people in the year below […]

When you think of meditation, maybe you think of some guru retreating to a mountain top or cave, sitting in a cross-legged trance all day long or a lovey dovey hippie spouting about world peace and how we should all love each other. The practice definitely has roots in spirituality and is an integral part of any spiritual practice, but meditation is, at its core, a tool for strengthening our […]

For those outside of the IT field, it is easy to mistake the World Wide Web for a Usenet application. Both are accessed via the Internet, and both offer a vast selection of information on any topic imaginable. However, they are entirely different resources, with distinctive driving technology. Understanding how the two are used makes it easier to get the most out of them. Understanding Usenet Long before the World […]

TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) courses are available for anyone who can speak English at a native or near-native level. No experience is necessary at all. There are hundreds of placements (both paid and voluntary) across the globe. There are varying contract durations (short term and long term), excellent extras in some cases – flight reimbursements, accommodation provision and insurance – and a variety of course options. TEFL […]

With the recent news that Oracle have bought out Collective Intellect in a bid to expand further there CRM social technology and with a number of other large IT and digital media organisations also following suit (including the recent announcement from Salesforce that they too have added to their acquisition portfolio with the buying of Buddy Media) there is an air of optimism surrounding desktop publishing (DTP) jobs in London especially. […]

Facebook recently announced that approximately 8.7% of its user accounts are fake. This seemingly small percentage adds up to a staggering 83 million profiles that exist on Facebook which do not represent an actual person. Remember why everyone abandoned MySpace and switched to Facebook in the first place? It seemed so sophisticated and legitimate. MySpace had fallen so far downmarket and gotten so sketchy that it wasn’t even fun anymore. […]

Going on a school trip can be a fantastic way for students to learn about the world. By traveling to a foreign city they have a chance to understand history, art, culture and humanities in a way that they simply could not in the classroom. School trips also offer an opportunity for some students who learn by experiencing rather than by listening, to really immerse themselves in a subject. School […]

The first step to becoming a successful healthcare administrator is earning your Bachelor’s degree, but attending a traditional campus-based university might not be a good fit for your lifestyle. The stresses of kids, fulltime employment and a spouse can make adding the necessity of attending on-campus lectures to this already strained equation a near impossibility. Many are finding their salvation lies in online education, which provides you with the flexibility […]

When you start a new job, you are full of starry-eyed intentions. You want to make a difference, do the best that you can, and get promoted. A few years down the road, you may find yourself in the rut, that rut that makes you dread coming to work. You get bored and complacent, and possibly angry that you let yourself get this miserable. There are ways to breathe new […]