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Financial Times – Student Access

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Free access to FT.com can help students with relevant and fresh ideas for essays, exams, extra-curricular activities and in interviews. Universities and employers confirm that broader general knowledge helps the best candidates stand out. With the help of teachers, FT.com highlights and guides readers to FT journalism that can enrich education and help prepare students for successful careers.

FAQs here

Click here for a guide to creating a student account

Infobase

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Access to 7 online databases:

  • American History
  • Bloom’s Literature
  • Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
  • Issues & Controversies
  • Today’s Science
  • World News Digest
  • Writer’s Reference Center.

Please use Username: distancelearning and Password: trial

Currently available until 15th June 2020.

Link for access.

The Conversation

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The Conversation is a non-profit, charity, independent news outfit that sources its content from academic sources and researchers to help you keep up to date with the world away from the noise of the mainstream media. Take a look at theconversation.com.

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Flipboard

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Flipboard collates content from across the web based on your interests so you only see what you want to see.


Flipboard is a news collaboration app and website that allows you to keep up to date with your subject areas and only see news on the things you’re interested in.

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