What we call learning curve is a graphical representation of someone’ learning rate in a defined subject. The curve usually has the shape of a ’s’.
The retention of information starts low, increases sharply after the initial attempts and will slow down when the persons gets less and less new information.
The learning curve is often used [...]
Learning is never a one way process. You can’t learn something and assume to have it forever. Knowledge, like skills need to be practiced to keep them alive.
There are many way to practice your knowledge. It can be playing educational games and quizzes or trying to resolve random questions you ask yourself on a subject. [...]
Having been in full time education until I was 21 years of age, I can honestly say I have had plenty of experience in completing coursework. It is often set at the beginning of a term and should be handed in near the end, but this does not mean you should forget about it until [...]
When I attended college I found it really hard to choose the subjects I wanted to study for the next 2 years. It was important that I choose subjects I liked, but it would also help if they were relevant to the type of degree I might want to do in the future. My parents [...]
Getting a job after university is very rarely an easy task. Even more so in recent times due to the impact the recession has had on the number of jobs available. It must seem like an impossible task, and not very motivating when you hear in the news that unemployment is rising.
Interesting figures from the [...]
It is only a few weeks to go before thousands of young people receive the news they have been waiting all summer for………Exam results! Prior to the release of the results education is a hot topic within the news. Most recently a former key figure in Labour under Tony Blair has called for a [...]
Universities and colleges lacking in any real accreditation and quality are still causing problems for foreign students wishing to study in the UK. Even though the UK government has been on something of a drive to close down these bogus establishments and indeed hundreds have been shut down, it seems to have had little impact [...]
Too often you see people claiming that the only way into a particular career is through academic qualifications at a highly prestigious education facility. But is this really the best way to ply your trade on the way up, or is there another method?
Obviously certain careers are only achievable through formal education at a university [...]
All of the UK’s universities are set to lose a total of £65m of funding from the government. The loss will be shared among them on a student population basis, with the Open University set to lose £2.5m and the University of Manchester £1.4m.
The government agency, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has claimed [...]
A recent government report in the UK has judged that it is becoming increasingly hard for students to get accepted into courses which lead to a professional career unless they are from a more affluent background. This goes against previous consensus that getting into careers in fields such as medicine and law was becoming easier [...]
