Making the decision to drop out of university requires a lot of courage and maturity, but mostly it requires preparation and planning.
It’s perfectly natural to decide that your course wasn’t what you expected it would be, or to find it too expensive, or to simply not enjoy the university lifestyle. There is nothing undignified about changing your mind once you’re there. In fact, more than 26,000 students dropped out of university in 2013/14.
Whatever the reason, it isn’t the end of the world. University is not the only path to a successful life and career. However, before making the decision it is highly useful to know what you’d like to do instead.
With so much pressure from schools and parents put on students to attend university, it might become hard to consider the many other career routes there are, which can provide you with just as prosperous a future.
If you are one of the thousands who discovered that university doesn’t necessarily give you ‘the best three years of your life’ and are searching for a new direction to go in, then read on - there is something better suited for you out there somewhere.
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As our most recent summer fades away, the days are getting shorter and colder and we start the dreaded march into frosty mornings and pitch-black evenings. Not to mention those pesky heating bills that sky-rocket as soon as it hits September...
...Or is that really the case? A
recent survey conducted by home heating oil specialists Emo Oil has revealed that central heating is actually used constantly throughout the summer, with households turning it up as soon as the evening chill arrives.
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It’s never a bad idea to plan ahead. As the old saying goes, ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’, and, true to the phrase, failing to prepare when starting a business can end in nothing but failure.
In today’s climate, business is fierce competition. Being fully prepared might mean the difference between success and failure.
This article aims to inform you how to prepare for starting your business in the trade, and making sure that you hit the ground running.
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We all want the best for our children, but sometimes academic excellence isn’t always achievable.
Some parents might consider ‘the best’ career to be in medicine, law, dentistry, teaching etc, but that’s not to say that the child wants this future for
his or herself. Perhaps your child doesn’t possess the skills and strengths required for that career?
If your child’s strengths suggest that their future ought to take a different direction, inspiring and encouraging them to grow is the healthy way forward.
However, it can be difficult to identify exactly what those strengths are and how they might take shape into a career - perhaps not even the child knows
where these hidden skills might lie.
But they are dwelling inside them somewhere, and this article hopes to shed some light on how to get your child onto the right career path. More...
Since 1932, Battersea Power Station has been a familiar sight in the very centre of London. Having been decommissioned in 1983, it has become one of the
most recognisable landmarks in the city, and remained largely untouched by the bustling city it lives in - that is, aside from its successful career in
showbiz, featuring an appearance on the cover of Pink Floyd’s 1977 album Animals, and its cameo in The Beatles’ 1965 film Help!
However, all this has begun to change. In 2014, plans to develop the half-forgotten area of central London were approved. Once a perfect location for a
power station, now it is hoped it will be an ideal residential community that is fully-equipped with bustling shops, comfortable neighbourhoods, and leafy
park walks, all in the vicinity of the beautiful riverside. More...
With the Rio Olympics now finished, one can’t help but watch in awe and wonder at the immense scale of such an event. Its worldwide
significance is unparalleled - nowhere else on Earth is there to be found an event more significant than the Olympics, with nations around the world
uniting to compete in a truly inspiring performance of passion, determination, respect and talent.
The demands for any Olympic hosting nation are extremely high - in 7 years, Brazil have had to complete a staggering amount of preparation for this year’s
event, dubbed as
‘the biggest race in Olympic history’
. For a country which has certainly seen its fair share of difficulties in recent years, both politically and socially, and not to mention the recent Zika
virus and terrorist threats, the demand could hardly have been higher.
But ultimately, the unsung heroes in making the Olympics a reality were the 90,000 or so tradespeople who were employed to perform a feat just as
incredible as any Olympic event: building the Olympics itself. More...
If you’re reading this article, the chances are you didn’t do as well as you’d hoped in your exams. But that’s okay - if might have been a rough day at the
office or maybe exams aren’t your thing.
Regardless of why your exams didn’t go to plan, you might want to start thinking about what options you have in front of you. If you didn’t get
the grades to get into your first choice uni, there are still several other routes you can take - it isn’t the end of the world, even though it might feel
like it.
Read on to find out what you can still do to provide yourself with a secure career and future prospects. More...
Thousands of UK students will be heading to university this autumn, but is it really worth the time, expense and years of debt that follow?
A degree certainly can give our youth a great start in their career and can provide a wealth of fantastic opportunities, rewarding salaries and job security for life. However for many young people, who may not be suited to university life or more advanced subjects such as medicine or architecture, a degree and three years at university can come at a hefty price. More...
