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Choosing friendships over academic prestige when applying abroad

There's a spectrum of universities in every country, from well-reputed ones that only accept the most decorated applicants to others that still offer high quality education while accepting students who didn’t prioritise academics as much in high school. This means that even if you're particularly ambitious, you don't have to choose between academic prestige and long-standing relationships.

Your guide to the Erasmus Mundus scholarship

A recipient of the 2022 Erasmus Mundus scholarship walks you through the process.

Picking your major: A case for Anthropology

For an Anthropology major, the world truly is their oyster.

The implications of grade boundaries on students

University grading scales are far more complicated, with numerous positive and negative grades alongside letter marks.

The complex experience of academic guilt

Does everyone develop academic guilt the same way, and for the same reasons?

Three tips for an effective group study session

How exactly do you make a group study session effective? 

How to tell if you're burning out

For students, burnout is common if they are in a highly demanding academic discipline.

Not fitting into any category at university

This is all normal when you have friends from all corners of the university.

Rethinking education and future skills

Staying relevant translates to positive outcomes for people.

October 31, 2024
October 31, 2024

Choosing friendships over academic prestige when applying abroad

There's a spectrum of universities in every country, from well-reputed ones that only accept the most decorated applicants to others that still offer high quality education while accepting students who didn’t prioritise academics as much in high school. This means that even if you're particularly ambitious, you don't have to choose between academic prestige and long-standing relationships.

December 14, 2023
December 14, 2023

Your guide to the Erasmus Mundus scholarship

A recipient of the 2022 Erasmus Mundus scholarship walks you through the process.

November 9, 2023
November 9, 2023

Picking your major: A case for Anthropology

For an Anthropology major, the world truly is their oyster.

November 9, 2023
November 9, 2023

The implications of grade boundaries on students

University grading scales are far more complicated, with numerous positive and negative grades alongside letter marks.

September 21, 2023
September 21, 2023

The complex experience of academic guilt

Does everyone develop academic guilt the same way, and for the same reasons?

September 8, 2023
September 8, 2023

Three tips for an effective group study session

How exactly do you make a group study session effective? 

July 20, 2023
July 20, 2023

How to tell if you're burning out

For students, burnout is common if they are in a highly demanding academic discipline.

June 14, 2023
June 14, 2023

Not fitting into any category at university

This is all normal when you have friends from all corners of the university.

May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023

Rethinking education and future skills

Staying relevant translates to positive outcomes for people.

January 9, 2023
January 9, 2023

Russell Banks, praised author of ‘Cloudsplitter’, dies at 82

Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York, his editor, Dan Halpern, told The Associated Press. Banks was being treated for cancer.