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The classroom is a difficult environment in contemporary, first world, educational environments. Just ask any teacher. In fact, just ask any learner. TES, the respected mouthpiece for the education...

Where are the best leisure holiday destinations around the world today? I guess it very much depends on who is going, doesn’t it? Maybe just two of you, a couple? Maybe a family? Maybe a group of...

Artificial Intelligence, otherwise known as AI, has unlimited potential; however, if you think about it, unlimited doesn’t hold a candle to the potential that exists for the manipulation of the...

The 34-year-old Ugandan-born Indian, the immigrant son of a Columbia University professor and a decorated film-maker, is a true anachronism in today’s world. After all, how did he ever emerge from...

Ruling and steering a nation towards affluence and social responsibility is rarely easy. However, given the religious and cultural imperatives, and the tribal societal dynamics, it probably comes...

If you’re anything like me, you can’t look at food without putting on weight. But also, if you’re like me, you detest diets, can’t stand so-called health foods, and things that are ‘good for...

Everybody wants to be an entrepreneur, be a ‘businessman', and become a millionaire, or at least become rich with all the trappings that go with it. But how many have the skills, qualities and...

Optimism is a wonderfully emotive quality, and particularly in respect of the new Israeli/Gaza/Palestinian dynamic, it is reassuring given wider humanitarian perspectives, and with global peace now...

If you’re my age, you will look around you now and see so many things that were never even thought of when you were younger, and if not inconceivable, then unbelievable seems inadequate. Online...

Have you ever returned from vacation and on your first day back at work asked a colleague, “How was your vacation?” While knowing that what you really wanted was to talk about yours? Think about...

Sports, once the pinnacle of dreams and aspirations for every young man and many young women, need heroes and heroines, need some good news, and need concern for individuals to become a...

So, it’s ‘back to school’ time, once again, for millions of students all over the world, for whom it’s a new year, full of new friends, new possibilities, new challenges and new adventures. At...

Our planet is the most diverse of environments, from its oceans and seas to its rivers and lakes, to its incredible diversity of habitats, its arid deserts, its arctic wastes, its tropical forests, to...

We are born worriers, aren’t we? We can’t seem to help it. Whether we are concerned about things we have done, or worried about our futures, it appears to be a very human state to doubt whether we...

What worries you? What concerns you? It’s probably nothing that would appear on an academic list of global concerns, but will almost certainly be something that is personal and experiential, to you,...

Whether teaching or lecturing, I would always have a ‘road map’ of my lessons on the board, so my students could see where they were going and what they would be doing and to be sure, I would...

I resisted purchasing an electric vehicle, or EV as they are known now, for years, for the most irrational of reasons: I couldn’t stand the arrogance of Elon Musk and couldn’t stand the thought...

Andy Byron, the fifty-year-old CEO of Astronomer, a data and AI giant in Cincinnati, Ohio and Kristin Cabot, the company’s HR chief have, in a perverse sort of way, achieved global notoriety after...

Survival is defined as the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of ordeal or difficulty and its nature being directly proportional to its intensity and its possible...

British statesman Winston Churchill was scorned by the Germans and adored by the British during World War II. A hero! But another of the same name, yet unrelated, was also brave, colourful and heroic!...