Tips, Guides & Academic Insights
Every education blog in Kenya seems to have an agenda — written either by Cambridge schools selling IGCSE, or CBC advocates defending the national system. Here’s what we found when we looked past the marketing…
Mar 14, 2026
“My child has IGCSE — they’re set, right?” It’s one of the most common things Kenyan parents ask us. The honest answer isn’t what most families expect, and it changes everything about how you should plan the next two years…
Apr 2, 2026
Most IB students study harder than anyone else in their year — and still underperform on exam day. The difference between a 6 and a 7 usually isn’t effort. It’s one habit almost nobody talks about…
Jun 18, 2026
There’s a specific moment every parent of a struggling student reaches — the urge to just sit down and explain it yourself. That instinct, well-meaning as it is, might be the exact thing holding your child back…
Jul 8, 2026
Every student knows they should study more consistently — so why does it never stick? The habits that last aren’t about motivation or a colour-coded timetable. They come down to one small change most students skip…
Jul 22, 2026
Most study plans collapse within a week — not from a lack of discipline, but because they were built wrong from the start. Fix two things about how you design it, and sticking to it stops feeling like willpower…
Aug 12, 2026
The course that looks perfect at seventeen often isn’t the one that fits at twenty. Before you rank your choices, there’s a question almost no careers day asks — and getting it wrong can cost three years…
Aug 27, 2026
Two students with identical grades can get very different offers — and it often comes down to which subjects they paired, not how well they scored. Some combinations quietly close doors before you’ve even applied…
Sep 9, 2026
Procrastination isn’t really a time-management problem — it’s an emotional one, which is exactly why the usual advice fails. The students who break the cycle use a small trick that takes about ninety seconds…
