Category: Offbeat Education Stories

Dialogue is an important part of essays because it allows the writer to convey information in an interesting, engaging way. In order to include dialogue in an essay, the writer must first learn how...

BPP University belongs to BPP Professional Education, which is among the UK’s biggest training providers. It boasts of a Highly Trusted Sponsor and University status, which allows it to confer degrees. In 2007, it...

Florence Lee is a 20-year-old geography student at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and a member of the university’s Hong Kong society. She has lived in the UK for two years after leaving Kowloon,...

Rewritten: Aldborough E-Act Free School is the first of its kind to be set up under the E-Act charitable trust. Headed by Sir Bruce Liddington, who was schools commissioner during the last Labour government,...

A Japanese scientist named Chonosuke Okamura examined rocks under a microscope and discovered that modern living creatures come from tiny organisms that are similar to the ones we see today. He named these extinct...

Audrey Jones, my beloved aunt, passed away at 84 years of age. She was a remarkable educator and an avid supporter of women’s rights. She was an amiable, bright, and hospitable person who strove...

Over the past century, there have been two pivotal moments in England’s education system: the 1944 Butler Act and the 1988 Baker Act. The former was a time of innovation, with the creation of...

The president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has instructed an independent inquiry into the links between a respected research lab at the university and financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Following continuing...

Achieving better-than-expected grades can be a gateway to a university that was previously out of reach. However, the sudden opportunity to access better institutions can be daunting for students who may not have anticipated...

When Graham Richards began his research, he never intended to profit from it. However, fate had other plans. Discussing his latest book on university spin-outs, he admits to the "cock-up theory of history". Born...