Ever thought about trying #online #university #study? Then give a #MOOC a go!
Although distance education is almost as old as the hills, as with pretty much all other aspects of life it has been revolutionised by the Internet. Gone are the days of students receiving books and lecture notes in the mail, … … read more
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Tagged universities, e-learning, free education, MOOCs, online courses
#Access #courses: a great alternative to #ALevels for #mature #students
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had a look at alternatives to taking A Levels. We’ve seen how the International Baccalaureate offers people the chance to combine rigorous academic study with taking six subjects at once, providing there’s an … … read more
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#BTECs: another alternative to #Alevels
As anyone who knows anything about teenagers knows, right now fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds up and down the land have only one thing on their mind: what to study after they finish their GCSEs. Although there are all sorts of different … … read more
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Tagged A Levels, BTECs, qualifications, studying
The #International #Baccalaureate: a good alternative to #A-Levels?
It seems that nowadays a week hardly goes by without a flurry of news reports and some sort of hoo-ha about proposed reforms to the English education system. One week GCSEs are being ditched and replaced with O-Levels only for … … read more
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Tagged IB, study options, university offers, A Levels
Two more great extracurricular activities for #university #students
After our last blog post on Wednesday about exciting and career-enhancing extracurricular activities you can do at university, we had a great response from you, the great studying and working public of this fine nation. In addition to people saying … … read more
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Three great extracurricular activities for #university #students
Okay, pipe down. When we say ‘extracurricular activities’ it’s not a euphemism for the sorts of hijinks that students get up to at university. No, these are extracurricular activities in the more traditional sense of things you can do that … … read more
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Tagged students, university, CVs, graduate jobs, student life
Suggestions for the #summer
Although by this point in February the several months of cold, rain, snow and darkness we have endured makes it tempting to believe that winter will never end, that whole business of how the earth revolves around the sun makes … … read more
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Tagged university, internship, summer, travelling, work experience
The merits of non-vocational degrees
University courses come in thousands of different shapes and sizes. In some cases, the outcome of studying a course is clear: it will equip you with the specialised knowledge and skills required to perform a particular job. This applies not … … read more
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Tagged training, courses, skills, universities
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Here at Leaving School we’re always looking to beef up our resources so that you, dear student/young person/individual thinking of returning to education/revision monkey (delete as applicable and feel free to add another category if you don’t fit into one … … read more
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The Erasmus Programme
Two things that really get us at Leaving School excited are great study opportunities and learning new skills. Hey, we never claimed we were cool. But we most certainly are always on the lookout for schemes that will let you … … read more
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Tagged apply to university, erasmus, languages, study abroad, university