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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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Chunking and Partitioning
In a BBC Education report published on 22nd May 2012 Schools Minister, Nick Gibb, challenges a programme of Maths teaching that really seems to be working. Using new methods based on teaching children how the right answer is achieved rather than relying on memory standards seem to have improved. Currently four out of five children are reaching the level expected of them at the end of primary school, and a third of 11-year-olds are reaching the standard expected of a 13-year-old.
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Tutoring Calming Down
Pete's blog 12-6-12: I did some assessments in London last week for the first time in ages...
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Calls for Public Speaking tuition in state schools
The Shadow Education Secretary, Stephen Twigg, has called for more emphasis to be placed on educating young state school pupils in the art of public speaking and interview technique. Speaking at an academy school in west London, Mr Twigg said: "If we are to break down the barriers that stop some bright young people succeeding, then being articulate and confident is critical.
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“Brilliant No Doubt but Can’t Teach”
At Blue Tutors we are always chasing our clients for feedback. Most of it is excellent, recent examples include such praise as ‘we want to carry on even though the exam is over as she is so brilliant with our son and really inspires him to work hard’ and ‘a fantastic tutor who I have already recommended enthusiastically to many friends’.
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Prince Edward Refuses Royal Pardon for Homework
Reported this week (15th May 2012) across the media was Prince Edward’s refusal to sign a royal pardon on behalf of a student. The royal pardon would have released the student from all homework until the end of the academic year. However, although the Prince was amused, he was still fearful of upsetting the head teacher himself.
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We Should Learn from Japan
Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary, in an article on the BBC Education News website on 14th May 2012, has been reported as saying that our education system needs to learn from the continuous personal development system used in japan to keep teachers and teaching getting better all the time. While our system has been subject to many overhauls, he says that it is largely the same as Victorian schooling.
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