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7 July 2025 – With Time to Spare: Clearing a Tangle and Thinking about Goals

I hope you’re enjoying the holidays! It’s such a relief to be free of schedules and timetables for a while, right? As we said last week, rest, reconnect, enjoy being…

30 June 2025 – Going Home

 It’s holiday time, and many of you are going home for the first time since leaving to come to university. As you pack your bags, take a moment to pause and…

23 June 2025 – GRIT

You’re almost done with your exams, and you’re exhausted. You must find the strength and the energy – the GRIT – to keep going in the last stretch. How does…

16 June 2025 – Coping with stress

It’s exam time. Sometimes you may feel so anxious that you cannot breathe. Let’s see if we can give you some pointers to help you give your very best. 1.…

9 June 2025 – Writing Exams with Confidence

It’s exam time, often a time of stress and tension. Next week we’ll give you some support in dealing with that stress, but for now it’s about the practical stuff:…

2 JUNE 2025 – SLEEP IN ORDER TO LEARN

With the mid-year exams so close, sleep is probably the last on your list of priorities at the moment. Let’s talk about that. Brain Science teaches us that physical changes…

26 May 2025 – Effective Study: Spaced Repetition

Good morning How’s it going with your studies? Have you been keeping to your schedule, using the pomodoro technique and making sure that you are learning actively? Good for you! Here’s another reminder of one…

19 May 2025 – Beating Procrastination

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here Last week we talked about that big dark shadow, fear of failure. The first step to overcoming it, we said, is to face it.…

12 May 2025 – Fear of Failure

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here This week we’re talking deep stuff that few of us will acknowledge, even to ourselves, but most of us have experienced: fear of failure.…

5 May 2025 – Handling Information 4: Evaluating Information – Staying Safe Online

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. We hear about misinformation and fake news every day. People lose money to scammers. It seems like you cannot trust anything or anybody. How…
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