29th November 2011 9:00
By Blue Tutors
Harriet came back from her trip to Canada last week, which was a welcome relief because it meant I could get on with my own work.
The most interesting part of last week was my trip to Oxford to help with an entrepreneur workshop which was being run in Magdalen College. It was slightly strange because the discussion was focused around the social sciences, and my field was (is?) maths and astrophysics, but the goal of the people invited was really to talk about their experiences of setting up a business in a sector that is associated with social sciences, in our case, education. It was good fun, and I think it went quite well, but I always feel a little funny about doing that sort of thing, because I don’t think I’m a typical entrepreneur, and worry that advice that worked for me, won’t work for others.
This week I’m in Manchester for one day to train someone to assess tutors for us there. It’s about time I did this because we have lots of interest in the area, and hopefully we’ll soon have lots more tutors there ready to take on students.