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Professor Spotlight: Óscar Hidalgo-Redondo

The first thing that comes to mind when students are asked why they like studying at UNYP is national diversity and the opportunity to meet different cultures in one place. Nevertheless not only students of UNYP are diverse. We recruit our academic staff from all over the world to pass on best practices and knowledge […]

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Finding the right balance between Study and Life at University

Are you a “full-time” student who is trying to balance study, work, and personal life? There is no secret how hard it can be for students to combine study with a number of other commitments. We are all striking the perfect balance which can be quite challenging and even stressful. Lots of students just find […]

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Basic rules for an excellent CV

Found a great vacancy? Now you need to interest the employer by emphasizing your top qualities. The University of New York in Prague leads the way among Prague-based universities for the employment rate of its bachelor’s students; a survey carried out by the Czech Statistical Office found that 99% of UNYP graduates were fully employed after graduation. UNYP’s […]

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Open source, or “free-to-UNYP” apps and tools for instruction

The global experience over the past years created new challenges and opportunities for professional educators and their students. Instructors deployed tools and implemented strategies to continue the delivery of teaching and learning for students around the world. That spirit is exemplified in UNYP’s community of instructors and students from over 60 countries around the world. […]

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So make up your mind already…

Every day we make, more or less voluntarily, an incredible number of decisions, from the absolutely trivial to the essential, and sometimes, among all the pluses and minuses, gains and losses, it sometimes flashes through our heads if we are honestly making decisions according to our hearts and minds, following our inner compass and voice, […]

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10 Tips to Get Back Into the Swing of Things at School

Well, the summer break is over and it’s time to return to our normal, academic routines.  Yes, we had a great vacation, filled with flexible schedules, maybe lots of travel, unpredictable sleep patterns, sometimes indulgent and undulating food and drink binges, less accountability for time and money, and many other freedom-related realities associated with being […]

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When Technology and Psychology Meet

In the past decade, our daily lives have been changed by the omnipresence of technology. It has become our “new normal” to give our full attention to our phone the moment we wake up and do the same just before falling asleep. This attachment to our non-stop sources of information and communication gave rise to […]

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Ten Ways to Declutter Your Mind and Free Up Mental Space

I don’t think anyone is going to be surprised regarding the reason this modest article is being submitted for your kind consideration.  To be brief and to the point, I will pose the following, simple question:  How many of us do not have a mind full of near useless thoughts and concerns that distract us from the […]

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“We have only one option: to educate and talk”

Games, the Web, and Porn: A Parent’s Guide to the Jungle of Digital Childhood and Puberty is the name of a new book by UNYP instructor Michaela Slussareff. Dr. Slussareff teaches in the Communication and Media and Digital Media Arts major, and in the fall will be teaching the History & Theory of New Media class. We asked her a few […]

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Pandemic commentaries by first-year writing students

When asked to contribute to this month’s newsletter, I knew exactly who to feature. In the Spring of 2021, I asked (though maybe “required” is a better word here) my first-year writing students to develop their own commentary piece on the pandemic.To encourage those students to explore their interests and create their own research space, […]

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