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Diary of an online student: a UBIS experience

The Swiss are famous for their precision, quality, and of course chocolate. They also offer high-quality, English-based, accredited education, online. The University of Business and International Studies (UBIS), is a ‘bricks-and-mortar’ university based in Geneva which delivers campus-based degrees online to students in Switzerland, and all over the world. I asked if they could give me an [...]

Make yourself richer: study art history

Many of us have dropped the term ‘Renaissance’ casually in to a conversation, aware of how impressive it sounds, but not entirely aware of its meaning or origin. We then hope like heck that we won’t be asked to explain… Well, in a nutshell the term Renaissance comes from a French word meaning: re-birth. And [...]

Is online learning going to suit you?

Is online learning going to suit you? What will a successful online student be good at? Online learning will be just as demanding as learning through the traditional routes, but as well as having the necessary skills and intelligence to complete the academic work, there will be other characteristics, and traits, that you will need to [...]

You’re already online. Why not study online?

With the growth of online social networking along with email, YouTube and shopping you, these days you spend a great deal of time online. So why not convert some of that online time into a valuable investment for your future?

Are online degrees a substitute for campus-based degrees?

Ian Newbold looks at the merits of the online degree and asks whether the degree studied online is a substitute for the degree studied on-campus.

Am I alone here? The loneliness of the online student

Ian Newbold, a previous online learning student, writes about the truths of social interaction and student-teacher communication on online courses.

Lifelong `Forever` Learning

Learning is not over once you graduate from high school … or your first time through college, either, whether you attend for a few courses, or acquire a degree. Learning is intended to be a lifelong event – a ‘forever’ experience – and studies even confirm the positive impact of an active mind on [...]

After 400 years Shakespeare is still relevant

William Shakespeare is in the news again – this time an exciting revelation of a portrait, owned for 300 years by the Cobbe family, claimed to be the only known picture of the great playwright, painted during his lifetime. How does this icon of English literature continually remain a firm fascination in the minds of modern day [...]

Learning Online: My Perspective

Online education? Twenty-five years ago I would never have imagined such a thing … correspondence or distance learning, sure, using textbooks or workbooks and sending in lessons – waiting for replies, grades, instructor comments – then repeating the cycle. I am a lifelong learner, after all, and any means to continue my education beyond my [...]

You get a second chance, don’t miss it: UK foundation degrees available online.

Have you ever wondered what some serious study could teach you? Where it could get you? How it could excite you? Well here is your opportunity to lay the foundation for a brilliant future. Ok, so now you want to study, but you’re worried about jumping in the deep end? Then you should consider studying a [...]