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WHAT IS THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN YOUR LIFE???

Music is something without which the world is incomplete. The power of music is incredible: It has the power to heal pain and make you feel happy. Being a teenager, I love music and can spend hours listening to it. Just as music is…

Digitally skilled … OK. But digitally literate?

Everyone seems to be talking about 21st century learning these days, and how educational institutions need to upgrade their curriculum and assessment strategies so that they can prepare young people for the modern workplace, and…

The Need for Hospitality Training for the UAE Work Force

The United Arab Emirates’ Hospitality and Tourism sector is making its mark on world tourism and is all set to be gearing up its pace with Expo 2020, estimating the industry will serve over 20 million visitors in the years 2020-2021. This…

SERIES #2 – MAKING SENSE OF THE GENDER GAP

Just as many of you glanced at the title “feminism”, you would’ve thought this once again is an attack from the ‘man-hating’ clan. Some of you out there would say, “hasn’t feminism already become a world-wide concept, why another article on…

Searching for happiness? Release your inner-child!

Have you ever observed a child playing or interacting with his peers and thought to yourself, ‘wow, isn’t it easy being a child…I wish I could go back there’? It’s a common feeling. With our busy lives of study, work and other…

Overcoming FOMO

This probably happens daily to most of us - I used to get up every morning to the sound of the alarm from my phone. My instinct then, was to pick up the phone and look at my notifications and updates from my social network. Digitisation is…

The Importance of Soft Skills in the New Millennium

Students in the new millennium are tech savvy, authentic, liberal, progressive, confident and impatient. They are busy playing online games and are always hooked to social media platforms. They prefer online interaction rather than…

Confidence: Fake it ‘till you make it

At TYV, we spend a lot of time talking about career success. One of the tools you need in your academic and professional ‘toolkit’ is networking. If you learn the skills, and if you put those skills into practice, networking can be a…