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Nevil Chiles:
Nevil Chiles was born in Birmingham in 1970. He attended Haybridge High School in Hagley in the West Midlands, successfully completing 11 'O' Levels and 4 'A' Levels before leaving school in 1988.
After a year in Australia Nevil attended King's College, London where he read History, graduating in 1992. In the mid 1990s Nevil worked and travelled extensively throughout South East Asia and Australia before becoming involved in education. Nevil worked as a private GCSE tutor to an influential family in Manila in the Philippines before returning to London to take up a full time post in the GCSE Department at Collingham School, Kensington in 1997.
At Collingham Nevil taught History and English at both GCSE and A Level. In 2002 Nevil left Collingham to set up Kensington & Chelsea Tutors Limited.
Dr. Anna Clark:
Anna Clark was born in Stourbridge in 1972. After leaving Mander Portman Woodward (MPW) in Birmingham in 1991 with 4 'A' Levels she went on to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine to study Medicine. She qualified as a doctor in 1999 and became a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2001. Despite her involvement in Kensington & Chelsea Tutors she continues to work as a GP.
Thumbs up for about turn on UK exams.
Thumbs up for about turn on UK exams.
The recently announced about turn by Michael Gove on last week's proposals to introduce a two tier exam system has been given the thumbs up by Nevil Chiles, an education expert who runs a well established private tuition portal for parents and students across London and the South East (www.kctutors.co.uk).
On Thursday of last week reports suggested Mr Gove was preparing to replace GCSEs in England from autumn 2014 and also to bring in a simpler exam for less academic teenagers. Reported as the return of O-levels and CSEs, this may not now be the case.
Nev explained: "I absolutely agree. There should be one exam per subject that everybody takes at 16.
"These exams should be hard. Exams should be seen as a way of testing people's ability whether they are academically gifted or not. Pretending everybody is academically talented by lowering standards helps nobody.
"Give everybody the same opportunity and we'll know where we stand!" concluded Nevil who established Kensington and Chelsea Tutors in 2002 and has interviewed over 2,000 teachers and tutors over the past decade.