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Last Minute Tutor
We are almost half way through April, with some students having exams in less then a month and we are still getting many requests on a daily basis for pre-exam tutoring.
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Ethical Tutoring
Today I have been advising a tutor who has a problem student. Although this issue doesn’t come up often, it is frequent enough to merit an article. This student wishes her tutor to do all her reading for a particular subject and provide typed up notes with salient points, counter arguments etc - basically she wishes the tutor to do all her work for her.
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Special Tutoring Skills
Children with special tutoring requirements are often the ones who suffer at school, not from a want of intelligence but from a lack of ability to respond in the same way to a teaching style which is directed at the majority, as indeed it must be.
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My Working Hours
Pete's blog 1-5-12: I made a resolution last week to try and keep my work between 9 and 5...
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Are your kids smarter than you?
Ladue News today (12/04/2012) has an article which addresses the issue of when and why to call a tutor. The writer, Russell Hyken, is a psychologist and parent, who has himself experienced the feeling of helping with homework of which he wasn’t entirely sure.
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Arabic-English Specific Features
Arabic is not a difficult language; it's systematic and governed by rules.
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What are A Levels for?
While Education Secretary, Michael Gove, wishes to give universities say in how the A level courses are examined as well as the content, teachers’ unions are questioning their right and their interests as well as their capabilities.
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Ofqual report backs final exam A-levels
A report by England's qualifications watchdog, Ofqual, says academics are losing faith in first-year undergraduate students. Students, according to 71 academics interviewed by Ofqual, lack basic skills in English and Maths, as well as the knowledge to write essays, conduct research, reference properly.
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Online tutoring - not just second choice
Cleveland.com reports a real rise in the number of students taking advantage of a new system on online academic support. While this is for University students at the moment, there is no reason why this kind of thing cannot happen here in the UK with school kids. And indeed it does on an informal level, where teachers often answer students’ questions posted on homework forums etc.
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