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31-03-11: What Can a Tutor Do Before the First Lesson?
The more experienced a tutor becomes, the more likely he or she is to have a standard procedure when first put in touch with a student.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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30-03-11: Tuition Fees Will Lead to £80,000 Repayments
Calculations show that students could end up paying back over double the original cost of their student loan.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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29-03-11: Online Tuition Underway
Pete's blog 29-3-11: The most exciting thing to happen the last week was the proper start of our online tuition project...
A Blog article written by Blue Tutors.
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28-03-11: Reading Tuition a Success According to MPs
Two MPs in Milton Keynes have praised a reading initiative in one of the local Schools.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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25-03-11: Can tutoring help when students lack basic skills?
For tutors it is extremely daunting to find increasingly that students lack the basic English skills required to write to a GCSE standard.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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24-03-11: The Dilemma of Students Taking GCSEs and A Levels Early
It is a relatively rare request for us to provide tuition for advanced students, students who are looking to take qualifications early, but it does happen.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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23-03-11: New Standards for School Teachers
Michael Gove has announced that new standards are to be introduced to assess and monitor the standard of teachers.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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22-03-11: Website Updates and the Start of Online Tuition
Pete's blog 22-3-11: I forgot to mention on this blog that a couple of weeks ago we had a real website scare...
A Blog article written by Blue Tutors.
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21-03-11: Ten Year Old on Course for His Maths A Level
A 10 year old in Leigh has achieved an A in the first part of his Maths A level.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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17-03-11: Stating Goals in Context when Tutoring
We’ve already written an article about setting lesson goals.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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16-03-11: Academics Critical Over Tuition Fee Information
Hundreds of Oxbridge academics have written to the government to express their concerns over the recent changes to university funding in the UK.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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15-03-11: Course Success
Pete's blog 15-3-11: The tutoring course I ran in Oxford went really very well...
A Blog article written by Blue Tutors.
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14-03-11: Small Tutoring Programme in Napa Valley
A volunteer tutoring programme in California is helping the local students, and bringing them closer together.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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11-03-11: The games exam boards play
The fact is that we have an exam system in which excellent students can articulately address the question at hand, and still do very poorly, if they fail to meet the increasingly narrow assessment objectives required by the syllabus.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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10-03-11: Tuition Arrangements: What Students Expect
Many long-standing Blue Tutors will know that we deliberately don’t try to enforce a lesson structure or a lesson style.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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09-03-11: Ofqual Head Wants More Electronic Exams
The head of qualification standards (Ofqual) in the UK has said that the current reliance on pen and paper examinations cannot continue.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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08-03-11: Tutoring Course
Pete's blog 8-3-11: I’m actually writing this slightly later than I would normally...
A Blog article written by Blue Tutors.
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07-03-11: Parent Teacher Association Funds Private Tutors
A school in Rutherford County has managed to hire three tutors to help their students after a donation of $2,000 from the Parent-Teacher Organisation.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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04-03-11: Oxbridge outcry over university funding
Oxford and Cambridge have this week expressed serious concerns over the way in which universities will be funded.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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03-03-11: Why Some Students Get Left Behind
Of all school subjects, there is one above any other where we hear the phrase “I am completely lost”.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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02-03-11: New Government Reading Test Described as ‘Bonkers’
The government have been criticised over the introduction of a new reading test for six year olds which includes ‘non-words’.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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01-03-11: Tutoring Course Deadline Good, Despite the Cancellation
Pete's blog 1-3-11: Unfortunately the tutoring course I was hoping to run this weekend has been cancelled...
A Blog article written by Blue Tutors.