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Although it’s a lot of hard work, the advantages go beyond simply gaining a qualification: through self-study, you develop invaluable skills and traits, such as the ability to motivate yourself and to take responsibility for your own education. It shows initiative and drive, and both universities and employers will be impressed by this. In this...

Plenty of universities conduct interviews as a means of deciding between candidates who appear equally well-qualified on paper, but unfortunately, applicants often crumble under the pressure of the interview situation. The key to a successful interview lies in thorough preparation...

You’re so deeply focused on the subjects that you need to do well in to get into the university you want that one day you take a breather and realise that you don’t know very much else at all. Say you want to study Engineering, and you’re taking Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry at...

Decision fatigue is a phenomenon that many of us are familiar with, even if we don’t know what to call it. Have you ever been at the end of a really long day of lots of hard work – the kind where you really have to get your brain in gear – and you’re asked...

Even luxury student accommodation can feel cold and soulless when you first move in. The identical bedroom layouts with their beech effect laminate desks, white or magnolia walls and stain-disguising carpets aren’t designed with the aim of being cosy or beautiful; just with the aim of giving students somewhere reasonable to live that won’t get...

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...