Wellbeing
Faces behind the frog: Robyn Smith
22nd October 2020
As part of our 'Faces behind the frog' blog post series, we talk to Robyn about life as a Unifrog Account Manager and how her previous experience as a Barber led to the creation of her favourite teaching resource! What does a day in the life of an Account Manager look like?It's tricky to say what an average day looks like as an Account Manager; no two are remotely the same! Some days I'll be travelling from my home in Newcastle upon Tyne far and wide to Glasgow, York or the Lake District; other days I'm at home with my Jack Russell Terrier Elsie, taking calls and answering emails... Read more >
Faces behind the frog: Chris Edwards
14th October 2020
As part of our 'Faces behind the frog' blog post series, we talk to Chris about life on the road as a Unifrog Area Manager and why he'd love to live in New Zealand... Read more >
Faces behind the frog: Rebecca Scannapieco
6th October 2020
As part of our 'Faces behind the frog' blog post series, we talk to Rebecca about what she learnt working at Zara and about her current role as a Unifrog Partner Success Lead... Read more >
Faces behind the frog: Rob Cannings
21st September 2020
As part of our 'Faces behind the frog' blog post series, we talk to Rob about his background in Higher Education and his favourite things about travelling as a Unifrog International Area Manager... Read more >
Faces behind the frog: Charley Fowler
14th September 2020
As part of our 'Faces behind the frog' blog post series, we talk to Charley Fowler about how her background in teaching helps her in her role as a Unifrog Area Manager... Read more >
Faces behind the frog: Jen Carter
7th September 2020
As part of our 'Faces behind the frog' blog post series, we talk to Jen about her role as a Unifrog Account Manager and the advice she would give to her 17-year old self... Read more >
Faces behind the frog: Farhana Somani
31st August 2020
As part of our 'Faces behind the frog' blog post series, we talk to Farhana about her role as International Area Manager for Asia and what she misses about life in London... Read more >
Distance learning case studies: a home-schooler parent's perspective
26th April 2020
We spoke to Allan, a parent who has home-schooled his two children since they started school. What’s the main thing you've learnt home-schooling your children? Patience :) You don't need to be a genius to home-school... Read more >
Distance learning case studies: a parent's perspective II
19th April 2020
Farhana, our International Area Manager for Asia, spoke to Sarah about her experience home-schooling in Hong Kong for the first time. Her children’s school have been using Google hangouts for their lessons... Read more >
Distance learning case studies: a Hong Kong parent's perspective
29th March 2020
Farhana, our International Area Manager for Asia spoke to Kaytie Harding, a Primary Music Specialist in Hong Kong. Kaytie is currently in her eighth week of home-schooling her daughter who is in Year 8 and has some tips for parents new to home-schooling... Read more >
Should you encourage school leavers to go to University?
4th April 2017
Sylvia Nankivell explores the pros and cons of encouraging students to go to university. The big question in the heads of many school leavers is “should I go to university?” With increased tuition fees, the normalisation of undergraduate degrees and a financially turbulent job market, the decision is no longer a simple one... Read more >
Raising Aspirations, Achieving Potential and Improving Careers Guidance
18th January 2017
Last year at Unifrog we ran our first series of 'Progression Conferences' at schools across the country - the events were focused on careers guidance, post-school destinations and maximising student success... Read more >
Student Finance Myths
5th January 2017
I left school to go to university in 2010, this was before the big rise in tuition fees for University. Below I’ll be talking about what affects students of today, but there are lessons to be learned from my oversights... Read more >
A student's perspective on the benefits of Unifrog
21st October 2016
A Year 12 student shares their first impressions of Unifrog at a student launch.On Wednesday 10 October all of Year 12 was given an introduction into the useful website Unifrog... Read more >
How Students can sustain themselves Financially through University
12th October 2016
[image3] Read on to discover some top tips on how students can finance their way through university. For the 2016 intake of undergraduates, the Student Loans Company will offer a maintenance loan of somewhere between £6,904 and £10,702... Read more >
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