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02 November 2026 – GRIT

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. This week, we’re returning to a thought we discussed in June, when you were writing semester exams. We are circling back…

26 October 2026 – Writing Exams with Confidence

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. End of October, and the exams are upon us.  It’s a time of stress and tension. In the newsletters over the…

19 October 2026 – Failure is not Fatal

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Apparently Winston Churchill never said the words quoted above, which are so often attributed to him, but it encapsulates an idea…

12 October 2026 – Making Sense of Your Work

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. At this point in the year, you are overwhelmed with course work, overloaded by information in all your different modules that…

05 October 2026 – Using AI to help you study

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. You are studying at a unique moment in time, when the world as we know it is being changed by technology.…

28 September 2026 – Into The Final Stretch

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Spring is upon us – in the north of the country it actually feels as if we’ve gone from winter to…

21 September 2026 – Find Your Flock

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Have you ever watched a flock of geese flying across the open sky? They move in a huge V, each one…

14 September 2026 – The Temptation of Social Media

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. If you’ve been following the Thought for the Week for more than just this year, this heading will be familiar. I’m…

07 September 2026 – Tie a SCARF round your emotions

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. We’ve been talking about feedback from students, with the thread of anxiety and stress running through it. Here’s a quote from a first-year Engineering…

31 August 2026 – Staying Sane (and Healthy) 2

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. This is the second in our little series on keeping your body healthy so that your mind can relax and learn and even enjoy…
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