HE student blog

In this final article from the “7 Skills for Right Now” series, Emma Sue Prince examines how resilience is not just your ability to bounce back, but also your capacity to adapt in the face of challenging circumstances, whilst maintaining a stable mental wellbeing.

In the penultimate article of the “7 Skills for Right Now” series, Emma Sue Prince examines how being proactive – placing your energy only onto what you have control over – can immediately help us feel better as we move towards solutions and even start to influence what we cannot control.

Continuing the “7 Skills for Right Now” series, this week provides strategies to help nurture optimism which in turn can have a positive impact on our decision-making, resilience and overall health.

Continuing the “7 Skills for Right Now” series, this week suggests how living with and modelling integrity can give us much stronger communication currency with others.  

Continuing the “7 Skills for Right Now” series, this week offers you guidance on how harnessing our ability to empathise can both fuel connections and help you regulate your emotions in times of stress.

Continuing the “7 Skills for Right Now” series, this week offers you guidance on how developing your critical thinking skills can help you feel more prepared to thrive amidst uncertainty and change.

We do not like change. Yet right now, we are surrounded by more change and uncertainty than many of us will ever have experienced or expected to experience in our lifetimes. In this series of blogs, we explore seven different skills that are designed to support you as you navigate this period of uncertainty and change. 

You are likely to be approaching your assessment submission time, a hugely important time in anyone’s learning journey and you will be keen to maximise your opportunities to succeed.

Group work can often be a source of dread for students. Uncertainty can surround how your group will work together, whether your grade will be influenced by your group members, the clarity of task instructions and, in the current situation, the physical distance between group members. 

During the coronavirus pandemic, you will no longer be able to visit your library to access textbooks and journals. Instead, you will only be able to use online study materials.

Though you may be used to accessing study resources online, you may need to develop some new skills to be able to utilise your online resources effectively.

You will now likely be well under way with studying online. The current situation has seen educators adapt quickly to structuring online courses and providing activities and resources to support their learners.