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31-05-13: The Internet vs Private Tuition
Research conducted by an internet service provider suggests that many parents feel that the internet has better educational value than a private tutor.
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29-05-13: Time for a Tutor to Develop Exam Technique
Right now, any tutor who is teaching a GCSE or A Level student will find their lessons changing quite significantly
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24-05-13: Private Tutors can Challenge Narrow Educational Reforms
This week Education Secretary Michael Gove has angered teachers, writers and academics with an attack on the standards of grammar taught in primary schools, and comments regarding teachers’ failure to encourage children to read more ‘traditional’ books such as Middlemarch.
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22-05-13: Helicopter Tutors
The ‘helicopter’ approach is not just prevalent amongst parents; private tutors can get swept along in the process.
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17-05-13: Advice on Selecting a Tutor
When a family is hiring a tutor for the first time, what criteria should they use? What do parents do when they don’t know how the world of private tuition works?
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15-05-13: The Government should focus on more than English and Maths
It comes as no surprise then that the most common private tuition requests are for English and Maths. These are core subjects, without which students will struggle to go on to achieve their goals in life. However, the government shake up of the curriculum, whilst rightly emphasising these subjects, has dramatically cut back on arts subjects including music, drama and art.
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10-05-13: Nervous Tutors Just Need Practice
One of the most disappointing things to see from a tutor at one of our assessments is when someone has prepared exceptionally well, but performs poorly on the day.
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08-05-13: Private Tutors Help Prepare Students for Independent Study
A recent survey has revealed that university students frequently receive under 100 hours of contact time throughout the course of their undergraduate degree. As well as sparking controversy and fueling the debate on higher education fees, this has also started some interesting conversations about the benefits of contact time at this level.
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03-05-13: Tutors Should Teach Independence
In cases where tutors have been teaching students for some time, the student can come to rely on the tutor too much. If the tutor is always there every week to pick up the pieces of any problem that has emerged, students can sometimes struggle on their own if the crutch is taken away.
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01-05-13: How a Tutor can help you Revise
At this time of year students from GCSE and A’ Level to degree often hire a private tutor to help with exam revision. There are a number of revision tricks that a tutor can help with which can potentially improve students’ grades.
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