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Holiday is coming! Yes, it is and I'm always excited about it (sometimes more than my children 😃)...but the question is do you have plans for your children this season? Much as it is a good time to take a break from academic work, it is said that NO classroom work particularly during the long summer holiday leads to ‘summer slide’ or ‘summer brain drain’. This means that students may lose some academic progress made over the previous school year. Hence, students need to stay continually motivated but in a relaxed way.  Here are my 5 tips on what to do this summer: Watch movies, cartoons, documentaries, YouTube videos or podcasts that relates to your interest: During term time, it might be difficult to find time to watch movies and videos of interest hence it is only wise to maximise the holidays. If you love interior designs, sports, arts and craft, fashion, makeup artistry or cooking, watch documentaries or videos to horn your skills and increase your...

Hello Again and Welcome back! Much as I don’t promote individual Universities, I just thought to do this so Parents and Students can know the amazing opportunities that sometimes exists but not often explicitly stated on schools’ websites.  With high school graduations around the corner and for those considering studying in the USA, here are a few tips that might interest you about LSU… Did you know that… 1.    Louisiana State University (LSU) offers a one-of-a-kind student experience on a beautiful campus. The University is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana - the state capital and a cultural crossroads between the Cajun country of Lafayette and the beautiful, internationally-known city of New Orleans; It is also the birthplace of jazz music? 2.    LSU offers awesome opportunities to study Petroleum Engineering – In fact, they have their own oil rig on campus and LSU Engineering graduates earn over $80,000 on average? 3.    ...

Hello again and welcome back to my blog… Information they say is power. For some reason, people come to the UK to study but with a mindset that the UK does not permit them to stay beyond their studies. While this is somewhat true – especially because you only have 4 months (now 6 months) to search for a job before the expiration of your visa, there are also other ways to stay back or extend your stay in the UK. 1.        The TIER 1 graduate entrepreneur visa – As from the 5 th of July 2019, this would be called the ‘Start up’ visa. The TIER 1 graduate entrepreneur visa scheme is a collaboration between UK Universities and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI). The University is entitled to endorse 20 graduates per year that have a genuine and credible business which would be developed in the UK for a maximum of two years. Students are endorsed for one year and re-endorsed for the second year if they can show reasonable progress with the idea without n...

Happy Easter Celebrations to you all... For Parents who have children in Years 11 or 12 (also known as S.S.2 or 3) and with IGCSE and WAEC either getting started, underway or almost over, what are your next steps? Well, here are a few things that should be considered at this point. Some should have been considered even before now. 1.    Post-Secondary School Study destination Where would you want your child/ward to study - Nigeria, UK, USA, Canada, Australia etc.? Of course, this should have been considered much earlier than now but some people make this decision nearing the final exam completion - IGSCE, WAEC, JAMB or when results are released. The proposed course of study for the child also determines the study destination as certain courses such as Law and Medicine are 2nd degree programmes in the US and Canada. Other considerations could be the long-term financial investment, other siblings’ current destination, distance, post-study advantages etc. ...

At one of the conferences I attended in London in 2016, I had a conversation with a Canadian school representative and I found myself asking him why Canada was a great destination for students. Of course, he came to ‘sell’ his school, so I wasn’t expecting anything short of that. He mentioned specifically something I couldn’t forget in a hurry. He said, “Canada can be called the ‘Employee Market’. It favors undergraduate and post graduate students because they can have 4 to 5 job offers post-graduation. Little wonder 90% of Canadian graduates are employed less than six months after graduation. He further added “The baby boomers are a large population in Canada (as with many developed nations) with government needing to pay pensions, use tax money for state projects etc. A time was, when Canada was not a destination to be considered but the case is different now” …And we went on and on with this discuss.   [By the way, Wikipedia has Baby boomers as people born during the ...

It's been a while! Welcome back to my blog...While I hope to drop my top 5 reasons to study in Canada which I’m sure a lot of people are waiting for, I thought again to digress with some study tips I engaged while doing my adult education - doing the MBA I mean. If you have been following my past blogs, you’d have known that I came to the UK for an MBA programme with my 2 kids and husband. My husband went back to Nigeria to work after settling us for 2 weeks so I was left with the kids. The first Monday which was called orientation week started on a ‘high’ with activities starting from 9am to 5pm everyday. I was initially like ‘What is this oh, who sent me this message of adult education’- it was ‘TOOOO’ hectic. I actually thought it would end after the 1st week but I discovered that this was going to be the routine being a full-time MBA programme. A class mate of mine quit after week one and went back to Canada. She said she couldn’t cope (sad though 😐) ...