Education

Dear future students, Thinking about your future is perhaps one of the most important steps you have to take, and it should never be a decision that you make without thinking about it first. If you are an athlete, then the stakes are even higher. As a good athlete, looking for opportunities to not only work on your education but on your sports skills as well, you will have to think about the scholarships that you might be granted and thus kill two birds with one stone. But this might be easier said than done, as finding the right scholarship is not an easy task, especially if you take your competition into account. This is precisely why there are different things that you need to bear in mind before actually finding the scholarship that you want to pursue. First of all, you need to...

An open letter from the students of Liverpool university. The short film put out by the University of Liverpool this Christmas began “A year like no other”, a sentiment repetitively churned out in the last 12 months but nevertheless true. 2020 has indeed been incredibly different from any other year before, with the spread of COVID-19 being responsible for numerous challenges in both the personal and private sphere. I would like to think that as students we have adapted to these challenges with exceptional grace and understanding, and I recognise this has been equally as difficult for staff who have done the same. However, with final assessments looming in January many have failed to understand why the University of Liverpool have thus only deemed it necessary for staff to have...

Dear ex classmates, I don't know if this will reach the right people, but I hope that it does somehow. I was the nurse's daughter, that weird girl that turned quiet, then by 10th grade, disappeared. I was bullied from elementary to 9th grade. I was angry and held a grudge at all you for most of my life. I'm now 23, and am ready to forgive. I understand we were just kids, I understand that any of you could of been going to a rough time and lashed out. I forgive all of you now, for my own healing, and for you as well. I hope that all of you are doing well and achieving your goals in life, especially during these difficult times.

Every year in China, more than 70% of the 40,000 foreign English teachers trek home to their families in America, Canada, and U.K. for Christmas vacation and return back to their Chinese classrooms after Chinese New Year (Spring Festival). It was no different last year in 2019, except before 2020 arrived, we were all hearing the grim news about a new medical crisis in Wuhan that came to be known as the Corona Virus Pandemic or more recently as the COVID 19 Pandemic. When the borders subsequently closed all over the world, over 800,000 Foreign Expat teachers were treated to an extended vacation including the 25,000 from China. Now that the Chinese students have returned to their classrooms, their teachers are still locked out, and those that remained in China over the holidays now...