by Natalie Lancer | Apr 3, 2015 | Coaching in Education, Schools subjects advice, Study advice
Extra-curricular activities have been an integral part of school for a long time. As well as helping children develop life-long interests in the activities themselves, they also foster important soft skills, for example, taking part in sports may promote perseverance,...
by Natalie Lancer | Feb 25, 2015 | Coaching in Education, Schools subjects advice, University advice
Since 2010, I have been providing university advice to students and their parents through my business myuniapplication.com. Before that I was a secondary school teacher, Head of Science and Assistant Headteacher and published author in university guidance. I have...
by Natalie Lancer | Feb 4, 2015 | Coaching in Education, Practitioner's Advice
The ubiquitous cry from PGR and PhD students is the wish they had started writing their thesis sooner. Both the lure of the lab or the fieldwork to generate more data, and the remorseless obsolence of literature demanding constant reading update, distract from and/or...
by Natalie Lancer | Jan 8, 2015 | Career coaching
Many women choose to create new paths when they have children, using their experience to set up on their own. This gives them the flexibility and hopefully the income they crave. I experienced this first hand. After ten years as a BBC producer and two children, I...
by Natalie Lancer | Dec 19, 2014 | Career coaching
Last Wednesday (19th November 2014) was the first proclaimed Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, so it seems apt to reflect on the Mumpreneurs – the unsung heroines of the 21st century. No longer having to decide between a career or children (circa 1980) or as career...
