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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…

28 April 2025 – Working with AI to Study More Effectively

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. If you have been using the section on study methods in GRAD – your guide to university success, you will have come across…

21 April 2025 – Handling Information 2: Digital Literacy Using AI

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. We’re well into the academic year. Even those of you who had never met a computer before coming to university, know that computers and…

14 April 2025 – Handling Information 1: The Basics

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll talk about information in all shapes and sizes. We’ll talk about digital literacy. We’ll talk about AI…

7 April 2025 – Managing Money 4: Build a Happy Retirement from Day 1

If you prefer to listen to this newsletter, click here. The theme of this week’s Though is really theoretical at the moment, but if you take it to heart now, you…

31 March 2025 – Manage Money 3: Saving as the key to Self-empowerment

If you prefer to listen to this newsletter, click here. I know, I know, you see the heading above and you say to yourself, “I’m barely making ends meet and they…

24 March 2025 – Managing Money 2: Good Debt, Bad Debt

We have a brand new innovation this week: you can also listen to the newsletter click here. For a podcast on last week’s Thought on Budgeting, click here. How are you getting on with drawing…

17 March 2025 – Managing Money 1: Make a Budget

This week and for the rest of this month we’re talking money. You probably think you have so little, there’s no point in thinking about “managing” it. Only rich people…

10 March 2025 – What to do First

We are revisiting some of the stuff we talked about in our first letters in September, so this will be familiar to those of you who’ve been receiving it since…

3 March 2025 – Getting Control of Time

We all find ourselves exclaiming about how time flies. Heavens, it’s March already! Here’s a comment from a first-year student a few years ago: “The majority of students complain about…

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