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Persuading Students Not to Work?
What should tutors do if their students are working too hard?
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Record Numbers of Students Enter University
New figures released by university admissions service UCAS show that a record number of students were accepted onto full times university courses this year.
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Helping Students Choose their Degree
Tutors who have students in sixth form often find themselves being asked to help their students with an important decision which doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the subject they are there to teach: What subject should I study at university?
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Ofsted Hits out at Grammar Schools
Ofsted has criticised grammar schools, saying that the selective schools were filled with middle class children and were a detriment to social mobility.
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Looking for Useful Webpages
Pete's blog 30-12-13: Obviously nothing much gets done in the week that has just passed...
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Tutoring Over Christmas
One would have thought that tutoring requests would slow down over the Christmas holidays, and that students would put tuition on hold over this period. Yet increasingly, Christmas holidays are becoming one of the busiest times of the year for tutors.
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Exam Results Are Determined by Genetic Factors
A new study suggests that genetic factors contribute to about 60% of variation in GCSE exam results. Scientists at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London studied academic performance in over 11,000 identical and non-identical twins, and found that on average genes explained a considerable level of the differences in performance in core subjects.
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Tutors demonstrate impact of environment on students' achievement
If students’ ability is predominantly genetic, then why does tutoring have such a significant impact?
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Ofsted Chief Highlights North-South Divide in Education
Schools Inspectors Ofsted have released their annual report, which shows that the regional disparities in England are like “two nations”. Although the report showed general improvement in schools across the country, it also showed that 250,000 students are attending schools judged to be inadequate.
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