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To refer to any relationship between politics and an abundance of natural resources as a resource curse, automatically assumes the correlation to be a negative one. Certainly the lit...

A fable is a story which uses animals to convey serious moral viewpoints. The use of fable form helps convey the message of Animal Farm because it is easier to exaggerate negative cha...

Damned Lies and Statistics Official government statistical agencies are akin to the ratings agencies. They have their own version of Triple A ratings as published in their monthly di...

Well, one half-term has finished and there are roughly five weeks to go until the end of the current term. It has been an interesting first six weeks as I have seen seven students dec...

As a mother myself, I understand the frustration of employing a tutor who does not seem to be helping my children understand and tackle the topics that they find challenging. Each chi...

Prime numbers are numbers which can only be divided by themselves and by one. The first few prime numbers are: 2,3,5,7,11,13,17 and 19. They are sometimes called the building blocks...

Insanity "disease of the mind" is a legal term for mental illness causes of such degree that the individual is not responsible for his or her acts. In most criminal jurisdictions (in ...

Background There is a dangerous geopolitical fault line running between India and Pakistan and in recent times this tension has been increasing, threatening to trigger a full sca...

This September, the Northern Ireland national football team will embark upon its latest attempt to qualify for the World Cup. At the same time as the Northern Irish play Luxembourg, t...

I believe that at the heart of all teaching should be the learner. All students come to the learning situation with their own background knowledge and experiences. As a teacher it is ...