What can vet chains struggling to recruit learn from StreetVet?

With 37% of professionals wanting to leave the profession, Ploy Radford explores the best practices from a charity which helps pets owned by the homeless population and has a growing number of volunteers offer their free time to work with them…

Picture perfect

The demand for pet portraiture keeps growing, especially in this social media age. Ploy Radford, consultant at communications agency PLMR, examines this niche in the pet market and looks at how the artists and photographers can ensure their work stands out…

How music helps connect people living with dementia

A new campaign aims to show how listening and playing music can help patients be happier, healthier and more harmonious…

Let’s take this outside

From litter picking to considering the cosmos, teachers have been telling us what learning beyond the classroom looks like for their students…

Let’s stay connected

As pupils hit their teens parental engagement in their education can often start to drop off – so we asked schools what they do to keep their family on board…

What you need to know about equestrian art, and 7 works that will make your jaw drop

There’s no denying that horses are beautiful creatures, that is partly why equestrians are crazy about them, and why horses have been a popular subject of artwork for centuries. So if you’re looking to indulge your passion for horses through a more creative channel, treat someone who is mad about horses, or are perhaps looking for an equestrian-related investment that doesn’t require feeding, buying a statement piece of horse art could be for you…

Confessions of an ageing shopaholic

Many things have changed as I have gotten closer to the grand old age of 30 – the speed of my metabolism, my ability to hold my drink, and apparently, my shopping habits.

World Mental Health Day: Is Oxbridge right for you?

It seems fitting to me that World Mental Health Day coincides with the first couple of weeks of the Oxbridge Michaelmas term. It’s the start of a new academic year, with bright eyed, busy-tailed freshers flooding the tradition-filled streets and buildings of those academically-hallowed buildings, and I can guarantee they are already struggling, physically from hangover, and mentally from being in a hormonal and intellectual hot house.