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For courses starting 2019, with first exams in 2021, the landscape has changed. So now there are four courses to choose from, two at HL and two at SL (Analysis and Approaches and Applications and...

We have now had FIVE full years of the ‘new’ visual arts course and the Process Portfolio. It was started in 2014, with first examinations in 2016, so for those of us who have been...

An illusory figure is created when background figures, often with carefully placed gaps, create the strong illusion of a figure in the foreground - but the figure isn't actually there! - your brain is "filling...

Cindy Sherman uses photography in a creative, thoughtful, individual and admittedly sometimes provocative manner. Her photos could also form the basis of part of your Comparative Study or the critical investigation part of the Process...

Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) is an unfairly neglected thinker who succeeded in carving himself a niche in the rich tradition of French philosophy of science. Trained as a physics and chemistry high school teacher, Bachelard took...

Many schools will be expecting students to be thinking about university applications after this summer break, and most of those decisions need to be decided now, at least as a first step. This post considers...

"Meanwhile I want to go on talking to you as freely and intimately about what we live for and die for as if I knew you better than anyone else whom you know." English teachers...

Everest is an extreme environment, but is proving increasingly popular for tourists. Once the preserve of elite climbers, now it is becoming the focus for many inexperienced climbers who want a thrill.

For a long-time, south-east Asia and other parts of West Africa have accepted waste from the world’s rich nations and recycled, reused or dumped it in their own environment. Even today, there are containers full...

Having recently started teaching Theory of Knowledge for the first time this academic year, the links between Language A and TOK are even clearer.

The advantages of restored ecosystems are many – slowing down global warming by capturing and storing carbon, increasing rainfall, providing clean water, improving air quality and providing sources of natural capital.

The development of the Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin, Queensland, Australia was given the go ahead by the Queensland government in June this year. The mine is controversial for many reasons.