Breaking Up on Facebook: A Conversation

9 Jan

Breaking Up on Facebook A Conversation

Courtesy of Tom McBride at www.themindsetlist.com How Today’s Millennials Fall Out of Love: An Intergenerational Conversation Between Jeanette Geraci and Tom McBride Millennial Jeanette Geraci, has attended Beloit, is a 2011 graduate of Goddard, and is currently a writer living in New York. Baby Boomer Tom McBride is co-author of the annual Beloit College Mindset […]

Social Networking for Students

30 Dec

Preparing us for University

Tap tap, I just clicked ‘like’ on a friend’s picture – who I had met two years ago during a vacation to Vancouver. Tap tap, I just commented on the news that China is barring its financial firms from dealing with bit coin exchanges. Tap tap, I’m checking my school site to see the new […]

Cardiff Met University Competition to win an iPad

20 Dec

For your chance to win an iPad, enter the Cardiff Met global essay competition 2014. In February 2014, Cardiff Met looks forward to welcoming new students to campus from all over the world – we are offering all of our new International starters the chance to take part! To win, simply tell us about a […]

Indian student wins Prestigious Australian Scholarship

18 Dec

Indian student Uttam Kumar has beaten more than 37,000 competitors from 190 countries, to win the Australian Government’s prestigious Win your Future Unlimited competition. His prize includes 12 months study at Australia’s world class University of New South Wales, return air-flights, 12 months free accommodation, a generous stipend and the opportunity for an exclusive internship […]

Does Attending a Top Ranked University Mean the Best Job Afterwards?

3 Dec

It’s a dilemma that students face with the increasing number of universities and colleges on the market today. But it’s a good question – does attending a top ranked university anywhere in the world necessarily mean that you’ll be guaranteed an amazing job after graduation? According to us, there’s a short answer: No, it doesn’t. […]

What Education Means to Me

28 Nov

Preparing us for University

“Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead,” said Aristotle, once upon a time. Education is an essential human virtue. Man becomes ‘man’ through education. He is what education makes him. It has been rightly said that without education, man is a splendid slave, a reasoning savage.We […]

Travel to Learn

5 Nov

Preparing us for University

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – The Prophet Mohammed Though my imagination is known to run as wild as the zebras on the African plains, it is inconceivable to ever substitute the experience and learning that comes with travelling to a place. It is my considered […]

Lebanon’s School-yard

30 Oct

A photo of children playing in a school-yard in Lebanon – from the Challenges and Reality photo exhibition by Maher Attar, currently being displayed at the WISE13 conference in Doha.

Snapshot of the Women of India Leadership Summit

24 Oct

Braingainmag.com had the wonderful opportunity of attending a day of the three-day long Women of India Leadership Summit in New Delhi, held earlier in October. It was designed to encourage women’s leadership through providing a speaker, workshop and event lineup that fostered discourse about issues that concern the modern woman.Going to college requires a certain […]

Malcolm Gladwell on EICD

24 Sep

Malcolm Gladwell on EICD

What is Elite Cognitive Disorder?