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7A study conducted by University College London has shown that the non-verbal reasoning test for selective schools can be easily passed by just training online 10 minutes per week the last couple of weeks before the test. This raises concerns about how reliable the outcomes of such tests even are. However, for the verbal reasoning […]

Since China has been trying to become the world leading power they have been heavily investing in economic and political collaboration and engagement. However, rather little known areas they have paid attention to are literature and culture. In recent years they focused on translating Chinese poetry in English to make it accessible for the rest

Many opinions have been pronounced about Brexit. However, some of the most interesting are the ones that see a connection to Art. Art pieces are a way of expressing a person’s or culture’s views of the world. Analysts have now proposed that statues like the colossal one at St. Pancras International Station of a kissing

BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme has found shocking results about the number of children that get lost in bureaucracy. Apparently 3897 school-age children cannot be found in any school registry and might be taught in illegal private schools or not at all. How can this happen? Authorities state that the main reason for children disappearing is

According to a recently released study, the “Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study“ (TIMSS) Singaporeans are the highest achieving children in these subjects. England’s place in this ranking hasn’t changed in the last four years. However, Ireland’s Secondary School pupils are number 6 in Mathematics. Overall the highest achieving countries are mainly Asian: Singapore,

Sir Lenny Henry, newly announced chancellor of Birmingham City University delivered a touching speech about the accessibility of education to everyone. Birmingham City University has one of the most diverse student body with 45% of its students coming from a low-income household and 48% are black, Asian or any other ethnic minority background. Sir Lenny

The worldwide biggest LEGO store at Leicester Square, London now contains a new machine: The LEGO Mosaic Maker. The principle behind this invention is easy: Children can take a picture in a photo booth at the store and the picture will immediately be built out of bricks within seconds. The children experience art in a

450 years ago John Shakespeare, the father of William Shakespeare war ordered to overpaint medieval painting by Henry VIII. Scientists, who have been working on restoring the church situated in Stratford-Upon-Avon discovered these art works last week. Henry VIII was known for abandoning religion from society and he was trying to destroy all art related

At the beginning of November a new portrait of her Majesty the queen painted by the Irish artist Colin Davidson was unveiled. The artist spent over a year on painting the monarch based on pictures and previous paintings. In an interview, he mentions his awareness of the weight and importance which comes along with the

Researchers from the American university of Vermont have examined 1700 books and found that all these books could be summarized using only 6 plots. These claims, however, came into question since the literature was not actually read by the experts, but analysed by a machine only looking at emotional language. Further, the novels examined were