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Changing the Homepage
Pete's blog 10-3-14: Having sorted our new website design last week, I’m just wondering what to put on our homepage...
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Tutoring Adults
The boom in private tuition has not only happened amongst school children and their parents, but also adult learners.
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Plans to Promote Women in Academia
Academics at Cambridge University have issued a statement calling for new recruitment techniques to tackle the lack of female professors in UK universities.
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Schools and Private Tutoring
One of the things that parents worry about when deciding to hire a private tutor for their child, is what their child’s school will make of it. Although tutoring is now extremely popular, there is still no accepted etiquette as to how to address this issue with schools, and the attitudes of schools towards the private tutoring phenomenon vary widely.
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Schools Guide Warns Against Toddler-Tuition
The Good Schools Guide has issued a warning to parents not to employ tutors for children under the age of five. According to the guide, parents should resist the mounting pressure to hire tutors to help their children get ahead at a young age, and avoid tutoring for primary school entrance exams.
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New Website Design Coming Soon
Pete's blog 3-3-14: I moved house last week which caused a bit of disruption...
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Tutors: Build Self-Esteem
If teachers can explicitly teach character and self-esteem through their everyday teaching of the curriculum, is this something that private tutors can work into their own teaching of their students? Most tutors do a good job of supporting their students’ self-development, but can we do more?
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Ofqual Calls for Crack Down on Appeals
Exams regulator Ofqual has complained that schools are requesting high numbers of re-marks for exams in a tactical bid to improve results.
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How to Teach Social Justice
orld Day for Social Justice is an opportunity for teachers to incorporate these themes into their teaching, and as tutors we should already be taking the opportunity to explore these themes with our students.
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