Time and time again we are emailed from concerned teachers and individuals asking the same questions over and over and over again: What is Document Attestation? Why do I need it? How do I do it? When must it be done? In this article, we hope to clear up all the smoke and mirrors surrounding… Read more »
Posts By: Sarah
Parents’ Day and Children’s Day: Encouraging Families Worldwide
You strive, day after day, working for the man in the standard nine to five that everyone else seems to have and each day you feel like you’re coming home a little more lifeless than when you left. All that brightens your day is the smiles on your children’s faces. If you’re the child, you’re… Read more »
How to Design a Curriculum
It’s pretty widespread knowledge by now just how destructive the Western World’s curricula can be to a student’s learning ability by now, with a wide majority of them based in Industrial-era origins and focusing more on continuing the factory line of workers, many other curricula have come to rise in order to fill the creative void, in… Read more »
Oman takes it up a Notch – Muscat University
Oman’s always been one of those unknown countries. Small time, not nearly as much history as its close neighbours in Qatar, Bahrain, and most notably, the United Arab Emirates, and on top of that it hasn’t exactly had a thriving economy, up until now. After the discovery of oil in the region, the country has… Read more »
Thrissur Pooram – The Elephant Festival
Every year in the South Indian State of Kerala in the town of Thrissur, the Elephant Festival takes place. Starting in early May and dating back over 200 years, the festival begins in the Vadakkunnathan Temple and over the course of the day spreads out to ten temples across the region which are: The Thiruvambadi… Read more »
An Outdated Approach – Why the Curriculum needs to Change
It seems that in the past couple of decades, more and more new curriculums are springing up, each one claiming to enhance the student’s learning. But why do we need a new curriculum? If it’s not broken then don’t fix it right? Wrong. It’s more broken than people think. The current UK curriculum is most… Read more »
Engaging the Child – A Motivation Innovation
You get in and open the door first thing in the morning as heavy footsteps of the class thump slowly and forcibly in as you stand at the front and ten, twenty, fifty faces look back at you. The morning register is announced and the faces slump back into their seats, chewing on pens and… Read more »
Nigeria Rises – An Economic Titan by 2050?
You’ve heard about it all over the place and it’s definitely true when it’s said that Nigeria is rising and fast; due to the discovery of a widespread amount of oil fields the country is now the world’s tenth biggest oil supplier and this has seen GDP growth rise higher than every other country in… Read more »
Cuisine in Africa
Due to the wide amount of influences the country has experienced over the course of the last two thousand years, Africa has some of the most diverse foodstuffs and some of the most varied cuisine and culinary techniques on the planet and sees the types of dishes split into five main categories including Central, East,… Read more »
Songkran – The Festival of Cleansing
Starting between the 13th and the 15th of April, Songkran, the Thai Festival of Cleansing commences. The name translates to ‘Astrological Passage’ and is believed to have been adapted from the Sankranti Hindu festival, although today it is treated very differently and sees its biggest celebrations in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in the north, for at… Read more »