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How to Treat Your Tutor
Seasoned private tutors have been in and out of people’s lives and homes for years and have often have very different experiences with each family they work with. Some tutors who work for a long time for a particular student become part of the family, sometimes counselling on issues that extend beyond their academic remit.
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Holiday Tutoring
The Department for Education has announced that schools will now have the power to set their own term dates, which will mean many schools will choose to have shorter summer holidays. Many parents will be pleased that they will not have to find childcare and activities for their children for a full six weeks. However, for some, it will mean cramming in more sessions with private tutors before the start of the new term.
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Learning to learn or loving to learn?
Why do we learn? Why do we need tutors to learn? In this brief article I set out why I think learning is fundamental to us as humans and how we should see tutors with regards to that human nature
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Too Much Too Young
Regulation of private tutors will not necessarily protect students from all the problems that can be associated with private tuition. One of the issues raised by schools is the pressure that is being put on children from a young age, by parents who hire private tutors to work with them throughout the week.
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Students Gain from a Mix of Younger and More Experienced Teachers
New statistics emerged this week which show that the UK’s school teachers are the youngest in Europe. The survey, carried out by the OECD, showed that 60% of British primary school teachers are under 40, and 31% are under 30 year old. Only secondary schools in Brazil and Indonesia have more teachers under 40 years old than the UK. These figures have sparked debate surrounding working conditions for teachers and the potential problems and benefits of having young teachers in the classrooms.
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Schools Should do More to Help Girls into Maths and Science
Much more needs to be done to ensure that teachers do what they can to encourage girls, and avoid passing on the stereotypes of what subjects boys and girls are good at to their students
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Do Not Leave it to Universities to Solve Education Disparities
Data has emerged recently which suggests that over half of students from the poorest economic backgrounds in the country want to go to university. This data is particularly poignant when taken with the fact that only 13% from the poorest backgrounds actually do go on to go to university.
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Parents Enforcing Tutoring Methods
Teaching related problems tend to leave tutors unsure about a resolution.
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Removing Speaking and Listening is a Serious Mistake
This week Michael Gove has announced the latest plans for GCSE reform, which will see modules and retakes removed in favour of end-of-year exams. For GCSE English, the reforms include removing the speaking and listening requirement, a plan which head teachers, and former education secretary David Blunkett feel will be highly detrimental.
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