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'Children Should Start School Later' say Senior Academics
A prestigious group of educationalists has published an open letter in the Daily Telegraph expressing deep concerns over the schooling of young children in the UK. The authors, including academics, psychologists and teachers, have said that formal school lessons should not begin until pupils reach six or seven.
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Tuition for Three Year Olds?
where parents genuinely want to help their child’s cognitive development, tutors may well be able to devise appropriate and fun activities which will allow children to flourish and prepare them for school
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Calls to Scrap Ofsted Inspections
One of the country’s top academics has said that there is no evidence that methods used by schools inspectors Ofsted are at all effective. Professor Robert Coe said that the lesson observations which form the core of Ofsted evaluations do not necessarily lead to valid judgements.
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Rewriting Tutoring Guidelines
Pete's blog 23-9-13: I did a load more assessments last week...
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Tuition Equality Gap: How Tutors and Agencies Can Help
In an industry this competitive, where many parents can afford to hire private tutors for their children, the equality gap between wealthy students and their less well-off counterparts will continue to grow.
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Study Shows Stressed Students get Lower Results
Research carried out by Edge Hill University, the University of South Australia and the AQA exam board has shown that teenagers who stress about exam results are likely to get lower results than those who can remain calm.
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Investing in Students and Teachers
Nowadays it seems that money talks when it comes to producing the results that people want to see in education. This is true of all parties involved – parents, tutors, students, teachers, schools and universities.
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London Schools Falsify Science Results
Three as yet unnamed London Schools stand accused of falsifying GCSE science results. It has emerged that the schools have been switching weaker GCSE pupils to BTecs, which are coursework based vocational qualifications, and then falsifying the coursework marks.
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I Start Tutoring Again
Pete's blog 16-9-13: This time next week I’ll be in Texas for a friend’s wedding...
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