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What is the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)?

Transfer and communication are crucial outcomes of Learning. Transfer is the ability to apply knowledge or skills learned in one…

I was in attendance at The Royal Society on Monday 17 November 2025, to see Professor Iryna Gurevych awarded the…

“I will not research a made up condition!” How many times have we heard this? Last month McFly drummer Harry…

Recently there was astounding news that Huntington’s disease has been successfully treated for the first time. On Monday, I attended…

There has never been a more important time to remember the phrase: “Don’t believe everything you read.” In this article,…

Communication is essential for human interaction, and it can happen in many ways, even without spoken words. When people do…

I attended a lecture a few weeks ago called Science under threat: the politics of institutionalised disinformation. While the focus…

This does not mean that anyone who is not emotionally intelligent is emotionally dumb, far from it. Emotional Intelligence (EI)…

Why do (typically) women still change their names? Of course it is not limited to just women, many choose to…

I have always loved roller coasters, the exhilaration, the fear, the feeling afterwards where it is like you have taken…