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England's university applications down 10%
There has been a 10% drop in the number of people from England applying to study in the UK when higher fees start, figures show. The university admissions service, Ucas, says 46,413 fewer students from England have applied than at the same time last year.
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Shakespeare: start ‘em young
I teach English and English literature to students of all ages.
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If Payments are Worrying You, Talk to Us!
99% of our tutors pay all their invoices on time. However, we have a few tutors who don’t seem to think this is important.
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“My students have to understand, tutoring is only my second job!”
I was rather surprised to read this in an email from one of our tutors yesterday, as I’m sure you can imagine. Don’t get me wrong, we are well aware that tutoring is often a way to earn some spare cash in spare time rather than a career choice. However, we do expect that tutors treat our clients and the students to the kind of service which means that they won’t feel as though they are not your main priority.
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Free Schools Could be Run for Profit
In an article on the BBC Education page today (31/05/2012) Sean Coughlan reports that the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has not ruled out allowing Free Schools to be run for profit. Mr Gove told the Leveson Inquiry on Tuesday that he had an "open mind" on such profit making in the future.
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Problems with Tutoring Locations
Pete's blog 19-6-12: I came across a crazy problem with our system this week...
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Higher Fees Drive Students Abroad
HIGHER university tuition fees in the UK are prompting students to look overseas to continue their studies, according to a South Gloucestershire sixth form.
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Teaching the Parents
Given these hard economic times when parents are continually weighing up the benefits versus costs of hiring a tutor, we could offer tuition to parents who would be willing to support their own child in early stage Mathematics. In this way tutors would gain another few hours work and the parents would gain the knowledge to be able to support their children through KS1 and KS2 Maths.
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100 Seconds
The frighteningly real situation in our schools - posted on Saturday 19th May 2012 in The Guardian Education supplement.
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