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30-04-14: The Key to Revision
The Easter Holidays are a time when students start to feel the pressure of impending exams, while tutors are called upon to impart their wisdom with regards to revision and exam techniques.
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25-04-14: Can Tutors Teach Speaking and Listening?
A former government adviser recently spoke out, noting that teenagers in England are not being encourage d to express themselves, and criticising the government’s decision to reduce speaking and listening elements in English exams.
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23-04-14: How Much Help is Too Much?
Universities are coming under increasing pressure to monitor students’ work to ensure that the work is their own. Whilst plagiarism has always been an issue that universities have had to contend with, a rising point of contention is the degree to which students are receiving help with their assignments.
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18-04-14: Helping Students with Exam Fear
In the coming weeks, tutors who have students who experience exam fear will have to work hard to help them overcome it, whilst still revising as best they can.
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16-04-14: Easter Exam Revision Tips
It’s the time of year when tutoring agencies are getting inundated with calls from students desperate for help over the Easter holidays. In my experience as both a student and a tutor, I find that Easter holiday revision is particularly difficult.
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11-04-14: Tutors Should Reject Early-Years Testing
They only thing we would do by tutoring pre-school children is to hinder their development. We may not have any say over government legislation, but we can stop the tutoring industry following suit.
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09-04-14: Helping Students Improve their English
Private tutoring has become increasingly popular over the years, especially amongst families for whom English is a second language. It is an issue for many students that they not only have to contend with preparing for their GCSEs, but also that they must do so in their second language.
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04-04-14: State School Students Out Perform Private at University
New research has shown that state school students do better at university than those who attended independent schools who achieved the same A’ Level grades.
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02-04-14: Primary Schools Unprepared to Teach Languages
The annual Language Trends Survey which polled 591 primary schools suggested that teachers were not confident about the introduction of language teaching in primary school, and felt ill-equipped to teach to the required level.
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