The time spent at university can be an expensive few years, however many students find it useful to have a part time job to fund the odd cinema trip and catch up at the Students’ Union. Amy Gray and Claire Brooke from the University of Sheffield’s Career Service have some top tips as to how to help your child balance part time work and study, minimizing your concerns and the holes in their…
The time spent at university is valuable, but the long months between studying can be highly rewarding. Amy Gray and Claire Brooke from the University of Sheffield’s Career Service have some top tips as to how your child can make the most out of their university holidays, and give their CV a real boost!
If your child is in their Fresher year:
Don’t let them waste this time –…
For most students, the final year approaching their graduation is the next major transition in their lives. Whatever the next step after university: be it work, post-graduate study or time out to travel; it will essentially mean a change in lifestyle, demands and most likely, location.
Below are some top tips by Marcus Zientek, a Careers Adviser at the University of Sheffield, which will…
This September, English universities will be allowed to increase their tuition fees for undergraduates. The University of Sheffield is conscious this is a concern for many parents and we believe that it is important for parents (and your children) to understand the ins and outs of the new system based on accurate facts.
The funding which was previously provided to universities has been…
On 1st February 2012, a unique travel guide to the solar system will transport young explorers on an exhilarating adventure into outer space. London Mums love it because it is easy to read and also easy to understand a scientific topic that we as parents don’t always remember well 🙂 The pictures and illustrations are very good and brought back lovely memories of my time at school. Highly…
Parents often ask me about how to get their child interested in maths because ‘they just don’t get it.’
Understandably the same parents go searching for a maths tutor to help bridge the ever growing gap between their child and his peers….what they don’t realise is there is a lot of help they can give at home with a little guidance.
Maths Language
Keep the…
We all make new year’s resolutions. They seem to be always the same which we can’t keep up with. This year is the year of the Olympics so it’s in order to desire to be sportier and healthier. Here are my good intentions for 2012 and I am sharing some tips to detox myself.
1) Try tech detox – Take it easy and spend quality time with your child/ren at least for 1 hour every…
It’s been clear to me, throughout my experience of ‘stuff management’, that young folk are often very receptive to a structure for organisation. And before you fall about laughing, I don’t mean that they have a natural dispensation to the minimalistic. What I mean is that they like life made as easy for them as possible (and I can empathise with that sentiment, believe you…
Death is a taboo subject, but the parents of young children cannot afford to bury their heads in the sand when it comes to something as important as making a Will. What if you died unexpectedly, leaving your children behind? One of the most crucial things that you can do to safeguard your family’s future is to take control of what would happen in this situation by making a Will.
What if…
Number chunking, number lines and synthetic phonics – new teaching techniques brought in with the Labour Government’s 1999 Numeracy and Literacy Strategies – now mean that 95% of parents keen to help their children boost their grades are simply, ill-equipped to do so.
“Most parents do not understand how their children are taught, and it really isn’t a surprise”, says Geoffrey…