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13 October 2025 – 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 you…

06 October 2025 – Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. I really hope you’re well in this first week of October, South Africa’s most beautiful month. I’m not just saying that out…

29 September 2025 – 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. Even last year…

22 September 2025 – 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 summer with no…

15 September 2025 – Find Your Flock

Have you ever watched a flock of geese flying across the open sky? They move in a huge V, each one in the slipstream (an area with lower pressure or…

08 September 2025 – The Temptation of Social Media

It has been a full year since we started this newsletter. If you’ve been following us the whole time, this heading will be familiar. I’m sure it is as relevant…

01 September 2025 – Tie a SCARF round your emotions

The challenges of higher education often generate very intense emotions in students. Many are tempted to pack up and go home because of them. Your brain says this is life…

25 August 2025 – Feeling like an Imposter

Have you ever sat in a lecture, looked around the room, and thought, “These people are all so smart and capable. I’m not. I don’t fit. I don’t belong here”? If…

18 August 2025 – Balance now, Build for later

At this point in the year, you’ve settled in, you’ve found your rhythm, so you may have time to take a breath and consider what campus life offers apart from…

11 August 2025 – The Boring Essentials: Structure and Discipline

Here’s a rude wake-up call on a Monday morning: there are only three months left before the final exams. But … breathe out, relax, it is very doable. Your course was designed…
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