Students have had a bum deal in recent years. First they got their university tuition fees taken away, so now people on low incomes find it harder to claw themselves out of poverty. Next, they were isolated from families, due to COVID. Others have to live in damp housing with dodgy landlords. And graduates of today are the ones who will have to deal with cleaning up the mess from climate change. No wonder many students are stressed, depressed and broke. Some even drop out of courses.
Live Well, Learn Well is packed with 90 practical ideas to help students progress. Abigail Mann offers tips on classroom management, classroom layout, praise and rewards to help students of all ages. Her other book Live Well, Teach Well offers ideas for happy teachers.
- Stay Happy While You Study is by clinical psychologist Lauren Callaghan, who says self-care is in order. Studies and social life are important, but plan ahead and navigate through unique pressures.
- Stay Financially Healthy While You Study is by the founder of Blackbullion, the digital financial educational platform. Vivi Friedgut explores budgeting and money and offers practical tips and useful exercise to keep you out of debt.
- Stay Balanced While You Study is by mental health specialist Dr Dominique Thompson, who explores issues around leaving home, exam stress, socialising, safety, sex and drugs.
- Student Wellbeing: Depression is a book to help prevent the ticking timebomb. The news is often reporting on students with depression that did not receive the help they needed, sometimes committing suicide. Includes tips for depression (also read Anxiety at College).
- Student Wellbeing: Staying Safe and Well covers students as they prepare for university, and find their way. Ideal for sixth formers planning to go to unit, as well as first year students.
- Also read Stuff Students Should Know (a handy book on how to make a meal, plan a budget, proof read an essay, write a CV, plan a revision timetable and arm you with skills for the real world). Student Hacks is another book of 130 hints: from how to listen to lectures in half the time, to stopping beer bottles toppling over in the fridge!
