5th July 2011 9:00
By Blue Tutors
Last week Harriet and I had a chat about the project I’m doing with qualifications. We mainly talked about the structure of qualifications, and to interpret all the different terms. For example, when someone enters ‘English with French’, we have to think about what proportion was English, and what was French. Obviously this will vary depending on the subjects, and the institutions that offer them, but I think we came up with some good guidelines, and it’s set me up for a couple of weeks of data entry. Brilliant.
I’ve also been in touch with our programmer this week to make the arrangements for the final stage of online tuition. I’m trying not to get too excited, because ever since I first thought of allowing our tutors to teach online, there has just been obstacle after obstacle, and as recently as April it was halted in its tracks. Things are now looking good though, and after some testing towards the end of July, we might tutor our first student through our new facility.