Goodbye 2018 – a year of highs and lows like most. But if I might make an observation, after all this is my letter, things seem to be in general getting worse. Sometimes scarily so. Now a large part of that is just the daily diet of doom and terror peddled to us by lazy
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The Materialist Myth The most common myth you will hear about education is that it’s not worth the money. Why bother spending money learning when you could be making money with extra hours at work? This argument is so old-fashioned it was answered in the Bible! In 1 Kings: 3, King Solomon was supposedly
Those of you who are regular readers of our newsletter (click here to subscribe!) may well remember last month when we announced our new team member, Tsoey who is taking over from our long serving student advisor Mary Anne. I’m pleased to be able to tell you staff and students all that Mary Anne has
The clearing season is underway in UK Universities and higher education colleges. Hundreds of thousands of students who didn’t get the grades they need are now scrambling over one another to try to find a university with open spaces who might still take them. It’s a sad event – a product of a one track
Wikipedia has become something of a go to resource amongst students, educators and the media over the past decade. Advertising itself as “The Free Encyclopaedia that anyone can edit”, its huge range of content and over 5.6 million articles have made it an indispensible first stop when looking to learn about anything online, not least
The Massively Online Open Course has been getting a great deal of attention over the past few months. These MOOCS (as opposed to the Mooks) have been increasingly held up as example of changing trends in the education sphere by commentators, including the Economist magazine in a recent article on changes in the higher education
First deaf-blind person to enroll in a school of higher education and inspiration for disabled people throughout the world. The daughter of a confederate Captain who fought for the South during the American Civil War, Helen Adams Keller was born on the 27th of June 1880 in Tuscumbria, Alabama in the USA where her parents
Pioneers of Education: Luca Pacioli Regarded by many accountants as the father of modern Bookkeeping, Luca Pacioli was a mathematician and Franciscan Friar who famously collaborated with, the far better known, Leonardo da Vinci. Born 1445 in Tuscany modern Italy, Luca Pacioli would receive a merchant’s education while growing up and learning a head for
Anatomical Pathology is a medical discipline that is focussed on the diagnoses of disease based on the examination of organs, tissues and whole bodies in the form of an autopsy. Performed through a variety of methods, including gross examination and molecular testing, the speciality, as we know it today, is regarded to have originated from
Education opens doors to success windows of opportunity and in at least one case, gates to new possibilities. Such is the case with ADL success story Annabella Baker. Originally from Italy, but now living in the UK, Annabella faced a tragedy all too familiar to many when she lost her airline job during the Covid
Gardens are hard work.  Behind every immaculate lawn and carefully tended flowerbed is a never-ending struggle between nature and gardener. Of course simply leaving the garden to its own devices isn’t really an option; Untended, plants will grow freely for the whole of spring and summer and even into autumn. Worse yet, an uncared for
Some stories of educational achievement soar into the heavens. Of individuals who through hard work and toil overcame the challenges in their life to achieve. Certainly, at ADL we’ve seen and helped many individuals achieve their dreams through completing a course which helped them get a place at university or begin a new career. This,
If you’ve been in the UK over the past weekend you might have noticed you had a day off on Monday (or looked on enviously as other people had a day off). The coronation of a new monarch in Charles the Third means a new era. One that the Monarch is especially keen does not
If you’re looking for a side business or career that combines a love for fitness and a mentoring role. personal training might be for you Personal training is at it’s heart all about being able to help people live healthier, happier lives. By combining physical exercise with essential lifestyle changes like diet they help their
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