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Careers in the Engineering Profession
What’s highly intelligent, imaginative and essential all over? While there are many professions that play a vital role in society, one that is hard to beat is that of an Engineer. By working in the engineering profession, you can have a direct hand[...]
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Cost of Living Crisis: How to Manage Your Money Better
Unless you are lucky enough to be born into a life of luxury, like most of us, you will have to keep an eye on your spending habits. When your paycheck hits your account, it can be all too easy to get carried away and spend beyond your means. After all,[...]
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New Teachers Set to Start Their Careers on £30,000 Salary
The UK government has announced plans to introduce a starting salary of £30,000 per annum for all qualified primary and secondary school Teachers by 2023-2024.
This initiative is included in the Department for Education’s first Schools White Paper[...]
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Why are Online Courses so Popular?
Online courses are relatively new. Originally distance learning was provided by sending course guides, heavy textbooks, CDs and DVDs through the post. Assignments were either submitted through the post or via an online portal that was little more than[...]
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Should I take GCSE Chemistry?
Chemical scientists concern themselves with the substances of which all matter is composed, how it interacts and how it can form new substances.
It is a diverse and interesting field in which you delve down to look at the very atoms, molecules and ions[...]
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Become a Scientist without A Levels
Scientists, now more than ever, have a profound influence on our society. They invent cures to diseases. They can alter our genetic makeup. Or they can detect the very vibrations of the universe, like an infinite number of strings all being plucked at[...]
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What to do if I Failed my A Levels
A Levels have been the standard school leaver qualification in England since the late 1950s. They were introduced to give employers and universities an indication of a student’s ability in their chosen subjects.
It’s a system that has remained largely[...]
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Which is Better – iGCSEs or GCSEs?
GCSEs – whether you study them online (the so called iGCSE) or in a traditional setting are the same.
They’re the same because all courses awarding those qualifications have to go through independent assessment and oversight.
This is to ensure that[...]
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Can you do A Levels at Home?
Traditionally if you wanted to study A Levels you had two choices.
The first was when you were 16 either at sixth form or a sixth form college. The other was as an adult attending a college course, often in the evening.
Basically, if you didn’t[...]
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Should I take GCSE Maths?
Maths – despite its importance – is something of a marmite subject. People either loved maths at school, or they hated it.
This view was often related to one’s aptitude, the teacher, or both. Regardless it’s a subject that divides people greatly.
It’s[...]
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