How Missing Out on Nursery Due to COVID has Affected Children’s Development – New...
By Catherine Davies, Alexandra Hendry, and Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez
Nurseries can be noisy places. A clutch of three-year-olds gathered round a book shout excitedly. Across the...
Why We’re Searching England for New Dialects
By Fiona Doglas
When you meet someone new in person, one of the first things you notice is how they speak – if they speak...
How Lockdown has Affected Children’s Speech – and what Parents can do to Help
By Yvonne Wren
The pandemic means many children will have spent the best part of a year interacting much less than normal with teachers, friends...
Five Ways the New Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy for Schools in England Doesn’t...
By Elizabeth Rushton and Lynda Dunlop
The UK government has introduced a new sustainability and climate change strategy for schools. However, our research shows that it does...
Cannabis: How it Affects Our Cognition and Psychology – New Research
By Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Martine Skumlien, and Tianye Jia
Cannabis has been used by humans for thousands of years and is one of...
Four Tips for Learning Language Through Film and TV
By Neophytos Mitsigkas
Films and TV shows can be great tools to help you become a more competent speaker of another language. By captivating your...
Facebook, The Metaverse And The Monetisation Of Higher Education
The metaverse is a virtual world in which users, represented by an avatar, can shop, socialise, take part in leisure activities – and learn. Its development...
Five Ways the Internet Era has Changed British English – New Research
By Vaclav Brezina
The dramatic changes in technology over the past 20 or so years, from the internet to the smartphone and digital assistants like...
REVIVALISTICS: Why Should We Invest Time and Money in Reclaiming ‘Dead’ Languages?
By Ghil‘ad Zuckermann
This article introduces revivalistics, the new science behind language reclamation, revitalization and reinvigoration. It explores the various benefits of language revival.
Revivalistics
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New Year’s Resolutions – if the Future is Preordained Can We Really Change?
By Matyáš Moravec
Many of us set ourselves New Year’s resolutions hoping to form better habits. Some of us might want to be more environmentally friendly....
6 Courses that Are Sparking Students’ Interest in 2022
By Harshita Anand
Finding a course of study that fits your interest along with a high employability rate can be a challenging aspect of...
How Uncertainty Can Impair Our Ability to Make Rational Decisions – New Research
By Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian and Aleya Aziz Marzuki
We make decisions every day, many of which are so straightforward that we hardly notice we are...
5 Reasons Video Games Should be more Widely Used in School
By André Thomas
In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during...
COVID-19 Threatens the Already Shaky Status of Arts Education in Schools
By Ryan D. Shaw
Parents can watch their kids draw and paint at home or perform in school music concerts and dance recitals. But...
7 Reasons Why You must Consider Studying in the UK
By Harshita Anand
The UK proudly holds the reputation to be the ultimate academic excellence. With over 130 eminent universities, many international students aspire to...
How Students Can Use Storytelling to Bring the Dangers of Climate Change to Life
By Katie Persons, Florence Halstead, and Lisa Jones
With the stark “code red” warnings from the world’s climate experts in the most recent report by the Intergovernmental...
How to make teaching more women-friendly, post-COVID
By Katy Marsh-Davies and Suzanne Brown
For women, teaching is often seen as a welcoming profession. The greater flexibility and work-life balance that the job...
Influential Books About Women Empowerment and Being Your Own Boss
Since the 1700s to the 2010s, there has been a steady and healthy abundance of fictional, theoretical, and critical literary works all revolving around...
Happiness Is A Place Between Too Little And Too Much
By Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen
School meals are never termed “free” in Finland; they are simply called “lunch”. Alongside Sweden; Finland is one of...
Individualized Learning in Executive Education Accommodating the Modern Learner
By Mandy Hübener, Bianca Schmitz and Bethan Williams
ESMT Berlin is the highest-ranked business school in Germany and Top 10 in Europe. Founded by...
How the pandemic may damage children’s social intelligence
By Professor Barbara J Sahakian, Dr Christelle Langley, Professor Fei Li and Jianfeng Feng
Do you remember the excitement and anticipation of your first...
Heinz Junkermann – A Daughter’s Perspective
Nicole Junkermann learnt about business at a young age. As a girl, she’d be taken into meetings by her father Heinz Junkermann and offered an insight...
How to choose educational apps for pre-school children
By Joanna Kolak and Gemma Taylor
Lockdowns and school closures have pushed more aspects of our lives online. This has encouraged parents and children to...
What psychology can tell us about why some people don’t wear masks – and...
By Helen Wall, Alex Balani and Derek Larkin
While the world is eagerly waiting for COVID-19 vaccines to bring an end to the pandemic, wearing...
How Technology Is Rupturing the Minds of Our Younger Generation
By Samantha Kaylee
The Millennials and those belonging from Generation Z have experienced a lifetime on this planet where digital technology was made available to...
How to handle the next lockdown and Christmas – some tips for recently separated...
By Dr Susan Kay-Flowers
The impact of lockdown has made many of us reflect on what’s important in our lives and in our personal relationships....
Tips for Thriving in Your Career During the Pandemic
The Covid-19 virus has caused a global economic crisis, and the US hasn't come out the other side just yet. You may be worried...
The Plight of Children in a Neoliberal World
By Peter Koenig
The NYT wrote yesterday, Christmas Day, that an 8-year old Guatemalan boy died in US Border Control custody. The circumstances are not...
Children – Civilization’s Future, Victims of Western Brutality
By Peter Koenig
The United Nations Universal Children's Day – 20 November – has come and gone – and nothing has changed. No action that...
Know Your History! Why Historical Awareness Makes You a Better Leader
By David De Cremer
The truism that you learn from the past can be applied in almost all aspects of life, even in business so...
Is a Languages Strategy Essential for Britain’s Economy to Prosper Post Brexit?
By Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Britain hopes to draw on the trade relationships of the former Commonwealth to grow its economy post Brexit. Could this place too...
American Millennials and the World
By A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner
The 9/11 attacks have been the defining event of the American millennial generation. The article discusses how American...
WHY DO I LIVE HERE?: On Muslim youth growing up on the front lines...
By Reva Jaffe Walter
Denmark has some of the most restrictive immigration and refugee policies in Europe. Muslim youth are at the front lines of...
We Will Not Stop Talking about Racism
By Lawrence Ware and Rebecca Martinez
Many white people want to stop talking about racism. Consciousness implies action, and that kind of talking about race,...
The Side Effects of Culture Change: How to Anticipate and Manage Them
When a company transitions to a new culture, everyone, from those who are leading the change to those who are experiencing it, can have...
