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Forgot where you left your texbook yesterday? Or maybe you left your assignment at home in your haste?  It happens. With all the responsibility and things to accomplish, we probably tend  to get forgetful sometimes.  Do not worry because this is not conclusive for Alzheimer’s disease or any type of dementia. Dementia is an illness […]

  A person’s intelligence is said to be the raw brain power that one has. Yes, it is in genes but as human grows; his intelligence is affected by many factors: nutrition, parents’ support, education and perseverance. So basically, our intelligence is dictated by heredity, environment and other factors. How about the study skills? Is

  (By Folksy) Technology plays a huge part in the lives of young people, but many schools are yet to take full advantage of the huge opportunities ICT offers in the classroom. In the classroom of the future, everyone will take their shoes off at the door. Students will sit around big glass tables that

  Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher – a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country’s private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons.

  (By Talise Tsai) John Adams, the second president of the United States once said, “There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” Ba-boom! What a proverb! If there’s one thing I could tell to all the secondary school students in the world worrying

  (John Perkins) Many schools only have basic requirements for hiring a teacher. Generally, they are expected to have their teaching certificate, a degree, and pass a background check. This may, indeed, qualify a person to become a teacher, but not necessarily the most effective teacher they could potentially be. The best modern teachers –

  IF YOU are among the 10 per cent of the population in the Lefty Club, Happy Left-Handers Day! Researchers still don’t understand why one in 10 people turn out to be lefties but studies have shown that most children are either predominantly right or left by the age of three. So don’t feel too

  Gabrielle Turnquest has been called to the bar at the age of 18 She is the youngest person to be called to the bar in 600 years and at just 18, Gabrielle Turnquest has already become used to questions about her age. By 12 she was ahead of her classmates. She started her first

  The shelves of books on leadership at the bookstore or library take a variety of different approaches to the topic. Some may trumpet vague ideas about “synergizing paradigms” or they may offer simplistic concepts that are just as unhelpful. Certain characteristics on what being a good leader consists of may be agreed upon by

  (By Britchick Paris) When I was a kid and teen, I was bullied mercilessly. My pigtail was pulled, my knickers pinged and all sorts of names were etched on my wooden desk. I was tied to trees, sent to Coventry and at 18, I couldn’t wait to leave school and never see those horrid