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31-01-14: Online Tutoring For All
Recent statistics show that many children do not have access to the internet at home, meaning that they are not only excluded from tutoring opportunities, but school exercises as well.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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30-01-14: Debate Heats Up Over Higher Education Funding
Talks are underway between senior government ministers as to whether the student opportunity fund will be maintained. The fund, currently £327m, is in place to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds in completing their university studies.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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29-01-14: Licence for Education
Labour have recently announced that they want to introduce a teaching ‘licence’ which would allow teachers to prove they had the skills necessary to teach in state school classrooms.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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28-01-14: Labour's Plan to Licence Teachers
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has proposed that all state school teachers should be required to have professional teaching qualifications. He criticised the government’s policy of allowing unqualified teachers to work in academies and free schools, and said that under a Labour government only qualified teachers would work in state schools.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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27-01-14: Analysing Tutor Assessments
Pete's blog 27-1-14: For a while I’ve been concerned that we don’t have a good way of monitoring the scores that assessors give...
A Blog article written by Blue Tutors.
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24-01-14: Unhealthy Competition
If this is how parents are behaving in public, how are they behaving at home where there are no teachers to issue guidelines on how competitive they are allowed to be?
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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23-01-14: Aysmmetric School Week Proposed
Called the “asymmetric week’, the proposals would mean that students served by the council would spend four and a half days in school each week instead of 5.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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22-01-14: Revision Tips from a Private Tutor
There are some revision tips which are useful for all students, which anyone can implement if they put their mind to it
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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21-01-14: Schools Complain About Pushy Parents
The head of a prep school in North London has complained that parents are putting their children under too much pressure. The head of St Aubyns has said that the issue was highlighted by school sports days, where parents were being overly competitive and yelling inappropriately
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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20-01-14: More Tutor Lesson Goals Problems
Pete's blog 20-1-14: Last week I received an interesting email from a tutor following his assessment...
A Blog article written by Blue Tutors.
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17-01-14: January Tuition
. The Christmas holidays offer an extremely welcome break, but heading into the New Year with a huge pile of work waiting can be quite daunting. It is no coincidence that tutors and tuition agencies receive a spike in the numbers of tuition requests at this time of year.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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16-01-14: Students Moving Further Afield
New research has shown that students are now more likely to want to go to university further away from their home areas than in previous years.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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15-01-14: Letting go of Tutors
It is more common than many would think for ex-students to call their tutors after beginning university, and request extra help as they begin their courses. The question becomes, when is the right time to let go?
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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13-01-14: Consistent Tutor Recruitment
Pete's blog 13-1-14: I did some more assessments in London last week, for which there still seems to be a lot of demand...
A Blog article written by Blue Tutors.
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10-01-14: Problem with Imperfect Predicted Grade University Application
Isn't it time that we reviewed the way that university applications work?
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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09-01-14: Concerns Over Inaccurate Predicted A Level Grades
Concerns have been raised over the inaccuracy of predicted A Level grades with only 48% of predictions being correct in 2012.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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08-01-14: Unfair to Criticise Teachers for Inaccurate Predicted Grades
While there are no arguments about whether inaccurate predicted grades create problems or not, it does seem a little unfair to criticise teachers too much; it’s not an easy task, and not an exact science.
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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07-01-14: 2013 a Record Year for 18 Year Olds Entering University
UCAS have reported that more young students than ever before began full-time undergraduate courses in 2013.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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06-01-14: New Year Plans
Pete's blog 6-1-14: Happy new year to all of our tutors and students!...
A Blog article written by Blue Tutors.
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03-01-14: Persuading Students Not to Work?
What should tutors do if their students are working too hard?
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.
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02-01-14: Record Numbers of Students Enter University
New figures released by university admissions service UCAS show that a record number of students were accepted onto full times university courses this year.
A Tuition News article written by Blue Tutors.
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01-01-14: Helping Students Choose their Degree
Tutors who have students in sixth form often find themselves being asked to help their students with an important decision which doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the subject they are there to teach: What subject should I study at university?
A Blue Tutors article written by Blue Tutors.