Scholarship application tips

Applying smartly is the key to getting scholarships. Here are some tips to help you with your scholarship application. These are general guidelines and do not apply to a specific scholarship application. 1) Checking the school notice board daily is an excellent source of scholarship information. Shortlist all the scholarships you want to apply to.…

IB-ism: prejudice against students not in the International Baccalaureate program

Racism, ageism, sexism are among the common forms of discrimination polluting our present society. Are today’s children being bullied due to their level of “intelligence”? Beyond the problems of skin colour, age or sex, my demographic seems to also be subjected to “IBism,” what I refer to as the prejudice against students not in the…

To be or not IB, that is the question

Is IB right for you? Being a recent graduate of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, I simply could not escape the malevolence that the IBO has shadowed over my life: living memories of sleepless days (feeling one’s body turning stone-cold, eyelids accelerating downwards at 9.81ms-2 whist trying to recite Shakespeare’s plays without noticing the frighteningly similar…