Guided Reading Strategies and Resources for Teaching Assistants
Your Guide to Guided Reading!
Remember the struggle of learning to read. Becoming fully literate can take years of persistence, effort and support. Of course, those among you who are already teaching assistants will know this all too well. As a teaching[...]
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Access to HE Diploma (Health Professionals): Success Story
Anjuma was one of the many students we were proud to assist on their higher education journey as she successfully completed an Access to Higher Education Diploma in Health with us last year. In between a busy schedule filled with work and university[...]
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Skills for the Future: Digital Marketing – Social Media
What Is Digital Marketing?
Digital marketing consists of any marketing efforts that make use of an electronic device (desktops, tablets, smartphones, TVs, gaming consoles) to convey a message over a digital channel (websites, social media, search engines,[...]
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Are Counsellors Still Necessary?
The interest in self-therapy has been steadily rising. US-based radio station NPR called it “The Millennial Obsession”.
That’s because this generation is the one that contributes the most to the £7 billion self-care industry. It is also the one[...]
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Can Teaching Abroad Get You That Gap Year?
Do you like travelling? Ever had a secret desire to take up a gap-year, but life got in the way?
Previously reserved for the upper echelons of society, gap years have become a lot more accessible in recent years. The meaning of gap years, and what they[...]
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My Experience with a Student Foot Health Practitioner
It’s never too late to try something new. Today, I did just that. I had my first foot health treatment from a trained professional. Well, no, I am lying.
This wasn’t a professional. Not quite yet anyway! It was one of our foot health students[...]
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What it Takes to be a Health & Social Care Worker
Health and social care is such an engaging and varied career, it is no surprise so many people work in this field. The NHS alone employs 1.4 million people in health care and 1.6 million in social care. Did you know that women make up 80% of the non-medical[...]
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Michelle Thraves: Success and Sanity in the Time of Nappies, Naps and Meal Times
Meet Michelle. If you read any story today, let it be this one.
To some people, Stonebridge is just a college or nothing more than an online, faceless institution. To others, it is just a means to an end. To Michelle, it meant confidence in her abilities,[...]
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Are You Afraid Of Your Dreams?
… You should be. Big dreams are actually bad for you. It seems counter-intuitive, but dreaming big does not necessarily bring you any closer to success. Being specific, disciplined and ambitious on the other hand will pay off.
Have you ever wondered[...]
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6 Super Successful People That Chose Online Learning
Online education gets a bad rap. Despite the rise of MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) and trustworthy online degrees pioneered by some of the most successful universities, studying online has yet to convince society.
Yet, back in 2014, an MIT[...]
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