Phoenix College Málaga is now a UCAS Centre!
Our UCAS Director, Kirsty Ridyard BA Oxon, MA Oxon, can now send our own applications to UK universities for entry in September 2019. This is great news for our students, but it also means that Ms. Ridyard can help students from other schools, whether British, Spanish...How History Can Help You Spot Fake News in a Post-Truth Society. Mr Riley offers some History support on how to answer source-based questions at IGCSE and A Level (Cambridge, EdExcel and AQA)
There has been much in the news about false news and how we are living in a post-truth society. However, this is nothing new, as we have seen these ideas throughout history, for example with the term “Yellow Journalism” in the late 19th century in the USA. As Randolph...
Phoenix College Málaga welcomes its first students
We are delighted to inform you that the first students have now returned the matriculation forms and are enrolled on our inaugural academic year beginning in September 2018!! Since the matriculation process opened last week we have been busy carrying out interviews...How to answer questions on the Vietnam war – International History at IGCSE and A Level.
In 1967 Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavy weight boxing world titles and did not fight professionally for another 4 years. The reason for this was because he refused to be drafted into the USA army to fight in the Vietnam war. Not only is this an interesting...
Scalars and vectors for IGCSE and A-level Physics
All quantities in Physics can be divided into scalars and vectors and you need to recognize if a quantity is one or the other for your IGCSEs and vectors become particularly important for anyone considering taking Physics to A-level and beyond. Money for example will...
SI units, base and derived
How long left ? Until my exams.. Until the weekend 🙂 We are always racing off into time (t), that intangible, unknowable quantity. There is an awful lot of it but it seems to be passing all the same. Another week has passed since the last. So one week...
Help with IGCSE and A-level History Essay Writing. “Historically Inevitable!” – some ideas on the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
This month has seen the centenary of the Bolshevik revolution, an event which changed Russia and the course of world history dramatically. This revolution or coup by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, followed the first spontaneous revolution of March 1917 and was followed by...
SUVAT and the art of war
In The Art of War Sun Tzu says that ¨victorious warriors win first and then go to war while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win¨. Students preparing for their IGCSE and A level exams this year need to be confident that they will win first by...