Hello, I’m Abaigeal or Abby for short, and I attended Oxford Scholastica’s residential summer school as a Discover Business student. During the Business course, I studied various topics across the large spectrum that is the world of business, including supply and...
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A Day in the Life of an Oxford Scholastica Student: The First Monday
Hello, I’m Abaigeal or Abby for short, and I attended Oxford Scholastica’s residential summer school as a Discover Business student. During the Business course, I studied various topics across the large spectrum that is the world of...
The Once and Future Norm
Things must not have been as good as they seemed. Because we already know we aren’t going back to them - even once we can. A collective casualty of Covid is our old way of life. Once Covid is resolved through vaccines, herd immunity, or accepted numbers of deaths in...
The Lessons of Covid School
Education is a lifelong process, and every single one of us is now in Covid school. What do we do with a plague that became a quarantine that became a school? It can be hard to distinguish between Covid and his lessons, between the suffering of plague and the...
5 Tips for Productive Study at Home
Even for the most productive amongst us, working from home can often be a challenge. The temptation to stay in our pyjamas and treat ourselves to an extra hour in bed can be a hard habit to quit. However, these tips and tricks will help you to stay on track!1. Create...
Navigating Home Study – How to Support Your Child During Quarantine
In the current climate surrounding Covid-19, it is understandable that both students and parents should be worried about the uncertain state of academia. For most parents, the closure of schools has raised worries about how to support children who are studying at...
Three Things I Learned in the Scholastica Discussion Group
I was really lucky to attend the Oxford Scholastica Academy back in 2017 as part of the Creative Writing Summer School. In one of our classes, our teacher introduced us to an article by William Deresiewiez, discussing the disadvantages students face at an ‘elite’...
A Guide To The College Admissions Cycle
Your college application can be potentially stressful and intimidating, but it needn’t be a confusing process. We’ve prepared this handy college admissions guide to help you apply to some of the best universities worldwide. Whether you’re thinking of a college...
Purpose Generation: Helping High School Students Choose a Career that Matters
How students view themselves and their futures, and how that future unfolds, has become the focus of increasing attention. Myriad longitudinal studies, including this report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), are now exploring this...
How to Make Friends at a Summer School
What truly makes an international summer school memorable is the wide range of people you will meet. Studying abroad provides a wonderful opportunity to make new friends and build a global network of peers. It's unlike anything you would find at home! Some people...
What to Pack for an Oxford Summer School
Wondering what to pack is an inevitable part of planning for an Oxford summer school. Thorough planning and packing is important for a smooth start to a summer programme – there’s nothing worse than arriving and realising you’ve forgotten something vital, from...
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