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The Final Mile: How to Keep Your Child Motivated for Exams
How to Keep Your Child Motivated for Exams? Now the summer exams have started for GCSE and A-level students, many are relieved as they have realised that it’s not as bad as they had anticipated it was going to be. Other teenagers wish they had been better prepared. As for the parents, we are not there in the exam room with them, so it’s difficult for us to fully understand what is going through the teenager’s mind. The key point […]
The Power of the Support Team: How to Support Your Child During Exams
How to Support Your Child During Exams? For parents who have children in the final year of their courses GCSE or A-level (Y11 or Y13 – 5th form and U6th), they will experience what goes on when their child is preparing for an exam twice. One at GCSE and the other at A-level, and I can only relate to half of that experience so far and I don’t know if I’m looking forward to the other half. It is now […]
Mastery Over Fear: How to Overcome Exam Anxiety
How to Overcome Exam Anxiety: This quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt brought hope to the American people during the Great Depression. Like in any endeavour that is aimed at succeeding, there is an element of fear in the minds of teenagers who are taking GCSE and A-level examinations. There are a couple of other F words such as false and failure that are just as bad as fear. I suppose we’ve all been there as adults, and the truth is […]
Bridging the Gap: How to Motivate a Teenager for School
How to Motivate a Teenager for School: There are not many things that give me as much pleasure as speaking to parents and teenagers about their dreams and aspirations, and this is a journey that I’ve been on since 1993. It has been largely a tremendous experience and I’m glad to say that it’s been overwhelmingly filled with jubilations; however, it would be disingenuous to say there haven’t been tribulations along the way as well. The world is full of […]
The Parent’s Burden: How to Help My Child with Exam Stress
How to Help My Child with Exam Stress Last week, I met my auntie, I call mama, as in my culture it is rude to call her auntie, as your aunties and uncles are another mothers and fathers…. I was very pleased to see her for the first time in 13 years and she started by lifting my spirits. She said it is good to see me in person for a change, and not just my pictures – complimented me […]
More Than Just Grades: How to Prepare for University Applications 2026
How to Prepare for University Applications 2026:We are at that time of the year when 18-year-olds are preoccupied with their application to university. They are busy getting their personal statement finished, hoping for a recommendation in support of their application from the head of sixth form or whichever teacher is going to write in support of their application to the university of their choice. All these are on top of the upcoming mock exams and other commitments they may have. […]
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The High Achievers’ Post Your ultimate guide to transforming your child’s academic performance Take Action Tips! Prepare your son or daughter for world class higher education institutions One effective way to teach work ethic and the ability to work independently is to give your son or daughter a domestic-related task to complete. For example, you could tell him/her that it is their responsibility to make sure the household bills are paid on time and properly this month. This could involve […]
The Global Edge: Cultural Intelligence in University Admissions
Cultural Intelligence in University Admissions: In one those situations when my son is trying to prove to me how much more he knows than me, he will bring me a blank map of the world and ask me to label the countries – or to fill in the gap of missing countries. Another favourite of his is to ask me to identify the flags of countries in the world. There is a bit of inconsistency here. As I wrote in […]
Leading the Change: Environmental Sustainability in Education
Environmental Sustainability in Education In my last blogpost titled “Should we give Gen Z some credit?” I explored some of the many areas of life in which the so-called Generation Z are much more aware than, perhaps, we older people were when we were teenagers. Here, I am going to pick one of the five or so areas that I listed and go a little deeper into it. The environment is certainly a topic which everyone knows one or two […]
Should we give Generation Z Redefining Success: Leveraging the Strengths of Gen Z Students credit?
Strengths of Gen Z Students:There are all sorts of areas of day-to-day life in which young people are found to be wanting, and we parents are so frustrated that we get emotional at times when trying to get them to do things. The list is so long, and it ranges from the difficulty in trying to have a civilised conversation that is not monosyllabic to persuading them to get out of bed in the morning. This is not to speak […]
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