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Increase in university students seeking private tuition

RAPID GROWTH IN STUDENTS SEEKING HEADSTART The number of university students across the South East of England requesting private tuition...

Private tutors offer exam advice..keep calm and carry on!

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON! Private tutors reveal their top ten exam and revision tips “Keep calm and carry on” is one of the overriding...

UK education changes cause pupil anxiety

A recent survey of 200 private tutors has revealed a palpable sense of anxiety and uncertainty about the future on the part of many...

UK education…GCSE exam changes nowhere near enough!

Here’s my take on the following education story that appeared on the BBC website… GCSE change unpredictable results The government’s...

Tackling the issue of cowboy tutors…

Here’s our take on a recent article about ‘cowboy’ tutors that appeared in the Telegraph …link here for original article ...

Latest blog on level sixth form playing field call

** Level sixth-form playing field call ** The government should level the playing field for post-16 education in England, the Sixth Form...

Gove on History curriculum changes…for once I agree!!

** Historians back Gove curriculum ** Some of the UKs leading historians endorse Education Secretary Michael Gove’s new history...

ENTRANCE EXAM TUITION IS PARADOX FOR SCHOOLS

Poorest need entrance test help Some selective state schools should do more to help poorer children pass their entrance exams, suggests a...

Make A Levels worthwhile not dumbed down nonsense!

My views in relation to this recent story on A Levels… A-level plans challenged by school and university heads...

ONLINE PRIVATE TUITION PASSES CLOSE EXAMINATION!

With the January exams underway or in prospect for thousands of UK schoolchildren now is the time when a growing number of parents and...

WORDS and WAFFLE from DoE

** UK education sixth best in world ** An international education league table puts the UK among a leading group of countries headed by...

PLEASE SPEND EDUCATION MONEY WISELY!

** Poorest pupils weaker at maths** Research suggests the poorest children are twice as likely to struggle at maths than their...

Teenagers can’t read GCSE exams – take with a sinch of palt!

** Teenagers can’t read GCSE exams** Analysis suggests thousands of UK teenagers cannot read well enough to understand their GCSE exam...

Opening the Gates of online tuition

** Gates backs online universities ** Online courses provided by some of the world’s top universities are going to be used by students...

Private tuition provides Winter warmer

A WINTER WARMER THROUGH PRIVATE TUITION According to education expert Nevil Chiles, founder of Kensington and Chelsea Tutors and recently...

Is encouraging crippling student debt a good move?

Graduates facing tougher times A major long-term study suggests recent graduates face a much tougher jobs market and harsher economic...

Symptoms of a bankrupt GCSE system…

Heads say exam watchdog failed http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/education-19556772 From the ridiculous to the back peddling. This...

GCSEs need to change!

** GCSEs unfair to pupils, says Gove ** http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/education-19465555 What has happened this year is clearly...

New UK exam system needed

** Heads call for regrading of GCSEs ** Head teachers are pressing for this summer’s English GCSEs to be regraded amid a row over grade...

Face to face online private tuition that’s NOT Skype!

A pioneering new online tuition service has recently launched that will revolutionise the delivery of private, personalised, home-based...