UCAS Connect

If you are reading this as a prospective UK student, then I want to make you aware of a great opportunity you will have as a fresher.  Many universities integrate overseas students with UK freshe...

The last day of school (ever) is over and now the first day of study leave has arrived. I will never understand where the time has gone this past year...and so much has happened since we started back ...

So the run up to my fiftieth birthday earlier this year was traumatic enough, but now we have the run up to a reunion with our university friends and their partners - a joint celebration of all our fi...

The memories are flooding back now. Helen, how could you possibly have failed to secure the lid of the food processor in your domestic science exam? Tracey, when in English 'O' Level, they asked y...

When they excavate Roman skeletons, they can see immediately which were manual workers from the enlarged muscle attachment areas on their bones.  This one pushed heavy carts, that one lifted sack...

Thinking to be helpful, and provide a humorous list of "Don'ts", I have been asking my friends of all ages what the most stupid thing they ever did in an exam was.  I can only conclude that when ...

Not holding any offers, either because you've been unsuccessful with all five choices or because you've declined all the offers you received, is likely to leave you feeling anxious about your applicat...

No more Mondays at school. Our last lessons with our favourite teachers, cards, presents and cakes. It's sort of an emotional week so far, with school soon being behind us and exams underway. Having ...

Last night, when we rang Pascoe there was a great deal of rowdiness going on.  Apparently there were fifteen people at his place getting ready to go out.  From the state of the girl who snat...