Posts Categorized: Art

Ah the summer! Sun, surf, sand and sailing…   Well, here in the west, Sailing isn’t such a big thing anymore and ships are rarely used for anything more than commercial purposes. Depressing hey? But in Dubai, the tradition of sailing is big and strives to not be forgotten. The Dhow is the most well-renowned… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

If there’s one thing all teachers have been asking, one question on the tip of the tongue but that has never been answered since the beginning of formal education, is just one word: How? Time and time again, numerously inventive ways of education have been tried and tested, from the oldschool Victorian-era disciplinary ways to… Read more »

It’s not often that I get to write an article that has been brought about by watching videos for the first hour of my time in work, but when I do, it’s because I’ve been inspired. There are several topics in particular that have inspired this article and what it’s about: Reforming education for the… Read more »

Despite what many may perceive as a highly developed institutional system, the western world’s education has often been criticized as ‘lacking stimuli’ and ‘non-engaging’ with sources frequently citing that a lack of gripping material, exercises and frankly downright one-sided historical reference sets has damaged the young minds of this majorly influential region of the world…. Read more »

  Starting in the 1950s, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is widely known as one of the world’s biggest celebrations of Ice and Snow, occurring in the height of Chinese winter in the city of Harbin, which typically drops to far lower temperatures than the rest of China due to cold northern… Read more »

With the 2022 FIFA World Cup now less than ten years away, the cultured country of Qatar has been given the privilege it absolutely deserves, and for the first time ever, this rich and rapidly developing country will be able to host the absolute pinnacle of Football skill, the FIFA 2022 World Cup.   Of course, there can’t be… Read more »