Now that you`ve booked the first lesson with your tutor there are a few things you should prepare, in order to ensure the everything can go ahead a...

March 7th is word book day, a charity event held in the UK and Ireland annually on the first Thursday of March. The event takes its cue from the in...

According to the Chinese philosopher Confucius `music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.` To be able to play a music...

One of the UK`s largest exam boards has been intimating for a number of years it plans for all pupils to sit A-Level and GCSE exams online. This co...

It is a regular practice for both year 11 and year 13 students to sit a pair of mock exams shortly after the Christmas holiday. These assessments a...

Young children take to modern technology so naturally, it can almost seem they were born knowing how to use any device. From the moment they are ab...

Choosing a school for your child can be an extremely daunting challenge. Of course it`s not a task that should be particularly easy. You will be se...

Earlier this month at the Conservative Party Conference Rishi Sunak announced the introduction of a new qualification. Described in his speech as `...

Handwriting, the cursive script, once so much valued for its elegance and character, seems to be rapidly vanishing from the modern world. Touchscre...

While most parents will insist their children turn off their music while studying, there is a growing body of research suggesting listening to musi...

Most people will have used Mnemonics as a memory aid at some point in their life. Their power to aid recall by transforming lengthy sentences or lo...

The technology around virtuality reality has been in development for decades. I can well recall during the early 90`s queuing up in a video arcade...

For students across the United Kingdom A-Level and GCSE results day is fast approaching. The 17th of August will end the suspense of thousands of s...

School classrooms have been around since the times of the Roman Empire, first appearing in Europe in the middle of the 4th century BC - but after m...

For most UK schools the summer holidays will begin in the last week of July - Monday 24th of July being the date most schools break up, with many p...

I`ve often wondered why writing isn`t formally taught in schools, as the written expression of one`s thoughts is such an important skill to possess...

England rises to impressive Fourth place in international reading assessment

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One of the consolations of adulthood is not having to sit any more exams. With that in mind we should all spare a thought for the millions of schoo...

Once again exam season is upon us. In just a few weeks more than a million students will sit their GCSE`s, AS and A-levels. The exams begin in May,...

Many people will know Ofsted as an institution which assesses the quality of our schools, inspecting them at regular periods, and providing judgeme...

Most people will now be aware of ChatGPT, which was launched to an astonished public on November 30th 2022. An immediate sensation, within less tha...

Every tutor has encountered moments when they can`t inspire their students, times during lessons when they simply can`t engender their interest, no...

A new year is auspicious for all institutions, but for the education sector 2023 may well prove to be the year where a number of important and long...

Tablets are devices hugely popular amongst children, with even babies taking to them naturally, finding the touch screen easy and instinctive to us...

Not as well known as dyslexia, dyscalculia is a disability that leads to an impaired capacity to understand a variety of number-related concepts. S...

The subjects taught in classrooms have varied greatly over the years. While mathematics and english have been taught consistently over the centurie...

Native English speakers are in many ways extremely fortunate. English is generally considered to be the world`s language (though it may one day los...

With summer now a distant memory, and the days becoming noticeably shorter, no one can deny that winter is fast approaching. The darker, colder eve...

Perhaps the greatest impediment to academic success is not lack of intelligence, but rather a lack of will to face the work at hand. Every student...

I recall as a student how difficult I always found it to get up for school. The first few lessons would be spent in a somnolent daze, barely recept...

Many children may have become used to the long summer break, and may be struggling to get back into a good working routine now school has begun. Wi...

Back to school - three words that strike terror and despair into the hearts and minds of children across the country. Three words, which like a mag...

This is an anxious time of year for thousands of students all across the country. Many may well feel as if their futures have already been decided,...

With A-Level results due next week, there are fears that this year`s round of admissions could well be `the hardest in living memory.` There is a c...

Essay writing is an important part of virtually any course. Whether you are studying the sciences or the humanities, you will most likely have to w...

The American developmental psychologist Howard Earl Gardner proposed that humans have a number of different ways of acquiring information. His `The...

Teachers and tutors often see their pupils repeating the same mistakes. Very often these mistakes are relatively minor, and don`t represent any sig...

You may have heard quite a lot about `phonics` over the last decade. If you have a child in early years foundation stage (EYFS) or primary school y...

This week is Childcare and Early Education Week, an annual event set up to increase awareness of the amazing work done by those working in the earl...

Most schools and workplaces across the world operate according to a five day working week. Certainly there are exceptions to this schedule - retail...

Trying to ascertain just how much you learnt in a year is a difficult problem. Knowledge does not easily categorise itself, for it is rather a blen...

We are all so accustomed to the classroom (or rooms in general) being the accepted venue of teaching, it`s easy to overlook how beneficial outdoor...

If you ask your child where they go to learn they will most likely look at you rather quizzically, before answering `school of course.` Certainly o...

Those students who go on to achieve the highest grades are not necessarily the most intelligent in their peer group. Possessing a precocious IQ is...

How much time will it take a new music student to reach grade one on the piano? This is a question very often asked by new students coming to the i...

Winter is almost here. The days are becoming shorter, and there is a definite chill in the air. Inclement weather hardly encourages diligent and co...

For many people mathematics is simply a loathsome subject. They may have got along fine with it during primary school, but once they got to seconda...

Do students learn piano pieces in the same manner they study academically? Is there anything an A-level student can learn from the way a concert pi...

If education does indeed `set us free,` according to the old adage, which subjects should we choose to study to make the most of this liberty? Whic...

A-level results have just been published, and almost half of all students have been awarded an A or A*. If anyone thought the pandemic might have n...

One of the most common questions we get asked by new tutors is how much should they be charging their students. The answer we always give is a simp...

In our technology driven economy, many people might wonder at the purpose of studying art. What does a student have to gain by studying such a subj...

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The game of chess has its roots in India. As far back as the 7th century a similar game was being played, and from there it spread to Persia. With...

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How babies acquire a language is a total mystery, for they seem to simply soak up the speech patterns of their environment without any systematic t...

A DBS check allows an individual to prove they possess no criminal convictions. Formally known by the acronym CRB, or criminal record bureau, the D...

Fear of exams affects every student to a certain degree. The months and months of build up, along with a growing apprehension of just how important...

In many ways mathematics is the `problem subject` in the curriculum. No other subject seems to draw so much dislike, so much disdain, than mathemat...

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Many teachers are raising concerns over how GCSE and A-Level grades will be awarded this year. With repeated lockdowns and school closures, and so...

Since we started our company back in 2005 - wow has it really been that long? - Tutor Hunt has helped thousands of students with their academic wor...

Not only are we coming out of a long and cold winter, we are also preparing to emerge from the most protracted and difficult lockdown of this pande...

Since neither GCSE, A-Level, or As level exams will be taking place this summer, how will students` grades be calculated? The Department for Educat...

You have probably heard of people choosing to detox from alcohol, `dry January` being a well known period of abstinence undertaken by many who wish...

The story of Jaime Escalante is one of a dedicated and passionate teacher, fighting to change the prospects of `troubled` and `unteachable` student...

A desk is more than just a piece of furniture: it is a functional workspace that can either facilitate industry and study, or inhibit it. When seat...

Many will have heard of the Montessori Method of Education, which encourages hands on learning and directed play, but few people probably know much...

The Oak National academy, working in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, has created a wonderful resource to help thousands of children a...

The last year, for obvious reasons, has seen a huge increase in pupils receiving online lessons. Even though the technology to provide classes over...

As 2020 has now come to an end many people will be feeling a sense of a relief. With the spring weather ahead, and the prospect of an effective vac...

When I was a schoolboy back in the late 1960`s each class contained no less than thirty five pupils, and we sat in pairs at wooden desks. These des...

Someone hearing about machine learning for the first time might imagine a robot at the front of a classroom, delivering the lesson in a tinny voice...

Winter is almost upon us, and for many people that means snuggling up indoors with a warm, fortifying snack and comforting drink. With the days get...

The Corona virus pandemic has affected every part of society - but the education sector may well prove to be the hardest hit. When all this disrupt...

When is the best time for a child to start their homework? Perhaps the very moment they get in from school they should begin, so they can have the...

Ask any adult what their least favourite subject at school was, and the most common answer you will probably get is mathematics. Why exactly this s...

Children have been required to wear school uniforms at least as far back as the era of Henry VIII, when numerous charity schools were set up with t...

The national curriculum includes a wide range of subjects, with English, maths, science, and physical education being amongst the subjects compulso...

There is of course no good time for a pandemic, but for the many thousands of students who would have sat their A-Levels and GCSE`s in June, the ev...

Back when I was a primary school pupil the one thing, besides our text books, that we had to ensure we brought to school, was our own pen with a su...

Evidence strongly suggests that when children are playing they are actually learning a range of different skills and abilities. Through play childr...

Humans are naturally musical, with all cultures using music for enjoyment and relaxation, while also making use of it ceremonially, in birthdays an...

Research carried out by the UCL institute of education has found that more than two million children have done virtually no schoolwork of any kind...

In 2015 Booktrust, the UK`s largest reading charity, compiled a list of the one hundred best children`s books written over the last century. In pre...

Continuing with the series of the best books for children according to a list complied by booktrust, the UK`s largest reading charity, here are a s...

The importance of reading to a child is universally acknowledged. Books not only teach sentence structure, grammar, and vocabulary, but they allow...

When I was a pupil at school the beginning of a new academic year typically meant being issued a new set of textbooks. The teacher would call each...

All over the world countries are making steps to release their populations from the corona virus lockdown, with governments having to make the diff...

No one is certain when schools will be reopening, but with each passing day it seems more probable that pupils will not be returning to classes unt...

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There has never been a greater demand for online tuition. With schools across much of the world closed, and with lockdown procedures in place, face...

Easter holidays may be just beginning, but for the vast majority of students across the country this will be the third week they have been at home...

Wikipedia is by far the most popular internet resource site. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, the prefix wiki is Hawaiian for `qui...

The corona virus pandemic has caused disorder across all five continents. Besides the great and tragic loss of life, every sector of the economy ha...

Students today can enjoy a wide range of subjects that would have been the envy of earlier generations. Early universities taught natural philosoph...

World book day is a literary event that`s celebrated annually across the world on the 23rd of April. Also known as World Book and Copyright Day, or...

I doubt even a single day passes at any school with every pupil in attendance, but what would happen if the majority of pupils, or even all of them...

There are tried and tested methods to improve a whole list of activities. You can attend clinics to monitor and improve your sleep, and you can fol...

Most young schoolchildren will very likely be only too happy to learn their school has closed for the day. They might be compelled to feign disappo...

Everyone knows that the printing press is the most important invention - it has almost become passé to point out how it facilitated the disseminat...

Every year the OECD - the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental economic organisation containing 36 member c...

When I was a pupil secondary school, way back in the 1980`s, I believe there were at least 30 of us in every class. My surname meant that I was usu...

A new year is upon us, and so it is the time to resolve to cast away bad habits, and take up good ones. Most people end up making a couple of resol...

When I attended secondary school back in the 1970`s I would transport my textbooks and pens - the paraphernalia of learning - from class to class i...

There can`t be a parent who doesn`t know the importance of reading to their children, of nurturing their interest in stories and literature. After...

There are many reason why a parent might choose to home school their child. Perhaps the most common one is because a child is being bullied, and th...

Would you rather be good looking or intelligent? This is the kind of question, facile though it may be, that is guaranteed to engender a friendly d...

Back when I was studying for my A-Levels and applying for places at universities, I can recall being somewhat disappointed that my list of choices...

It`s unlikely anyone in the UK is unaware about the actions of the `Extinction Rebellion` group, who have brought parts of central London to a stan...

In this country it is almost unthinkable that large swathes of the population might be unable to read or write. Literacy is such a necessity in tod...

The majority of schools do not allow mobile phones to be used in class, and there are some schools that demand pupils hand their phones into their...

In fairy tales and legends the character of `the wise old man` often features. This venerable sage, with his long white beard and modest attire is...

It`s almost too long ago for me to remember the day I got my exam results, but I`m sure that for all students the long wait for their papers to be...

My doctor recently recommended I join a gym, but when I visited my local health club all the activities looked a little too strenuous for my delica...

Back in the dark ages when I completed my sixth form, it was fairly common for students to take a `gap year` before attending university. This enta...

Who can forget the feeling at the beginning of the school summer holidays? The sound of the school bell announcing 6 whole weeks of freedom? I can...

Most students leaving home to study at university will spend their first year living on campus. This is accommodation on university grounds, with s...

s most people are aware we are still suffering through austerity, with significant cuts to most public sectors, including the police force, and the...

A 2018 study conducted by Salary Finance, a savings and loans company, found that over three quarters of people polled were worried about their fin...

The importance of reading to a child is of course known to all - parents are encouraged to read to their young children during their time at nurser...

Many students may have enjoyed an unfair advantage in their A-levels last month, as it was revealed a Maths paper was leaked online some time befor...

A recent poll carried out by the National Deaf Children`s Society (NDCS) suggests a lack of support for deaf students at university is driving many...

t has long been known that music has a restorative power, being able to soothe and relax. As the popular phrase goes: `Music has charms to soothe a...

Ofsted`s suggestion to overcoming exam anxiety: don`t tell children they are actually taking a test.

Examinophobia, the fear of taking ex...

It`s that dreaded time of year once again - for thousands of pupils across the country, the exams that were safely far away in the future are now a...

The parents of Year 2 pupils at Bealings primary school have staged a protest over the Sats tests their children are obliged to sit. Such is the st...

I was a school pupil back in the 70`s and 80`s, and I remember many of my teachers being of somewhat `advanced` years. Of course to a child or even...

The Education Policy Institute, a think tank based in Westminster, has just released research that suggests almost 50,000 children have disappeared...

A classroom may well be the perfect incubation vessel for viruses and bacteria. Every weekday it`s filled with an assortment of children, who cough...

With no way to objectively assess how good one school is over another many people will simply rely on anecdotal evidence. Parents may select a scho...

The NASUWT teaching union have highlighted the growing occurrence of older teachers being `bullied out of schools.` A recent report has disclosed t...

In case you missed the news bulletin, spring officially began last Wednesday, on the 20th march. The long winter is finally over, and people are al...

My cousin is autistic, and from what I have heard attends an excellent state school, which provides a lot of understanding and support. The SEN and...

A friend of mine is a university examiner - she works for OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Exams). My understanding was that her job entailed compili...

For many years I was in the financial sector, working on average around 10 hours a day, often for six or seven days a week. It was a strenuous prof...

The PISA chief has announced that coding, a recent addition to the UK`s national curriculum `will be outdated very soon.` PISA is the OECD`s (Organ...

We have all heard the slogan `Too big to fail` - the assertion that certain institutions, primarily financial ones, are so interconnected and vital...

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has revealed, in report published last month, that a quarter of early years teachers possess no qualifications...

Rules may be relaxed permitting schools to build on-site accommodation for teachers

There are indications that certain planning regulations...

I can remember receiving an unconditional offer from my chosen university, and joking with my parents that I didn`t need to revise for my exams. `W...

Teaching methods have of course altered dramatically over the centuries, but perhaps the last 50 years have marked the most significant changes in...

It was with great dismay that I heard about the possible closure of the philosophy department at the university of Hull, the establishment I attend...

Two years ago a study revealed that as many as a quarter of all adults in the UK possess a literacy level of one or below. This means that they wou...

A series of new government proposals could allow degrees to be completed in only 2 years. Any universities offering these accelerated degree course...

We are all used to reading about the government bailing out Banks when they face hard times, but what about universities? Can they expect the same...

When I was training to be a teacher back in the late 1980`s we were all told that we had to make lessons fun. Children learn through playing, so th...

A recent study published by the Global Teacher Status Index shows that teachers in Britain are working more hours per week than nearly anywhere els...

I can vividly remember having enjoyed music lessons throughout primary school, and indeed the first few years of secondary school up to GCSE. Admit...

I attended a well known school that was acclaimed for its consistant high standing in academic league tables. It boasted impressive figures that pr...

New research from the National Literacy Trust (NLT) charity has made a strong case for a positive link between literary activity and mental health....

The inevitable return to school after the long summer holidays can be extremely daunting. At the beginning of the break the plentiful days of freed...

In many ways GCSE`s mark a frontier in in an adolescent`s life. Discounting the possibility of any earlier, precociously acquired accolades, the ma...

For many years now there has been a teacher shortage in the UK. Back in 2016 the National Audit Office (NAO) confirmed in an extensive report that...

A-level Results day looms, but is the predicted grade system hopelessly out of date?

All around the UK tens of thousands of students are ea...

After a long pay freeze teachers are to receive as much as a 3.5% raise

Ever since 2013 teachers have had to endure their pay increases bei...

Astonishing new figures from the department of education show that there has been a 15% rise in the number of pupils who were expelled from state s...

Most parents want their children to read more and play video games less. It would be hard to imagine a parent telling their child `put that book do...

A study conducted by the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences at Cardiff University, and recently published in the British Medical Journal, make...

The problem of childcare is a perennial one for working parents. Who takes care of the children during the day while they are at work? The situatio...

With all the negative stories in the media at moment - indeed always, what else is newscasting but a quotidian horror-show - it's nice to find a st...

People are commonly classified as being either visual or auditory learners. If you are a visual learner you will understand information with greate...

Teachers are turning to Emojis to help children understand Shakespeare

A growing number of teachers are using emojis as a tool to help thei...

A new school rule will be enforced this summer - students will be banned from wearing wristwatches of any kind during their GCSE and A-level exams....

`World`s best teacher` says the arts can save pupils from gang crime

A teacher from Alperton Community School in Brent has made the claim t...

University Fees - are they making higher education a privilege only the affluent can afford?

Should education be free? Is education a rig...

Students afflicted by a `Vocabulary deficiency` say UK teachers

A report commissioned by the Oxford University Press has found that many sc...

There is growing concern about the mental health of students at school and university, with many teachers, parents, and doctors claiming that they...

Children distressed that they can`t swipe the pages of real books

There are numerous reports from teachers at receptions schools and nurser...

Headphones and earphones are now so ubiquitous we hardly take notice of them, but future historians may well regard these micro speakers as the beg...

It seems barely a week can pass without another school shooting in America - and while we may think ourselves lucky that our children are not under...

I had become aware that the 1st of March was some kind of `dress down` day for schools, for every year I would see schoolchildren attired in fancy...

Make children take more exams from a younger age to combat mental health disorders

Schools Minister Nick Gibb, addressing a joint hearing o...

What is 8 x 9? School`s Minister Nick Gibb`s answer: `I`m not going to get into this.`

School`s Minister Nick Gibb faced an embarrassing si...

The former Work and Pensions Minister Damian Hinds has been appointed the new Education Secretary, after Justin Greening resigned earlier this mont...

Parents had until the 16th of January to select a primary school for their child. For many parents this date has been looming ominously for months...

With so much importance being placed on just a few exams during their teenage years, is it really a surprise that that many pupils decide to try to...

Last week The French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer announced that mobile phones will be banned in both primary and middle schools from Se...

The University of Exeter has published a report stating that both primary and secondary schools are placing more emphasis on `grammatical acrobatic...

Recent Ofsted inspectors have issued some dismaying news, saying that a third of five year olds lack the knowledge they should possess after comple...

Home schooling, or home education as it is actually termed in the UK, simply means a child receives all their education at home, either from tutors...

Many parents would say that their children spend far too much time playing computer games, and might wish they had as much enthusiasm for their stu...

A secondary school in Kent has been censured for using emojis to display pupils` GCSE scores. St John Fisher Catholic School in Chatham displayed t...

Virtual reality was all the rage in the early 90`s - it was the new `cool` technology. Not dry and academic like the PC`s that were beginning to cr...

The National Curriculum underwent a major change in the September of 2014, with ICT (Information Communication Technology) becoming GCSE Computer S...

Earlier this week Court of Appeal judges ruled that segregating boys from girls in a mixed school constitutes unlawful sex discrimination. The case...

Teresa May has just announced a freeze on the level of student university fees, while also raising the threshold at which the student loan debt mus...

Some commentators have judged a degree in philosophy to be `the most useless degree one can study for.` The number of students choosing to take thi...

We are living in a world of ever increasing automation. This isn`t to say that technology is becoming a more integral part of our lives - that woul...

The Latin word for being `left handed` is Sinestro - a term which hardly carries complementary connotations. The early ancient Greek word for left...

Of course every parent knows their child is special. Sometimes other people don`t see just how perfect their little one is. Even teachers can fail...

Survey Shows Four out of five primary school children do not get recommended amount of exercise

Public Health England, an executive agency o...

It has just been announced that teachers will have their pay capped to a 1% rise this year. Given that (as of April 2017) inflation stands at 2.6%,...

Danemill Primary School in Enderby, Leicestershire, has recently announced that it will shortening its working week, closing at lunchtime every Fri...

With UK university graduates now enjoying the highest amount of debt in the world - an average of £44,000 - it is becoming increasingly prudent to...

Students have always sought new ways to cheat in exams. Ever since we have been testing them, making them sit quietly in lines of little desks, too...

In the 1970`s a number of different theories relating to learning and knowledge acquisition were proposed. The uniting characteristic of these theo...

What is the ideal class size? Thirty seems to have become the normal number of pupils - but could this be too high, and even prove an impediment to...

From this summer the new GCSE grading system will be introduced. This will replace the traditional A* - G grades numbers: one through to nine, with...

When I was a primary school student, back in the 1980`s, lessons in IT were nothing more than an hour a week being taught very basic word processin...

Ofsted have announced that they plan to look at the social media sites of pupils and their parents to monitor whether the standards at their school...

Are school uniforms an overly authoritarian constriction on children`s identities? Straight jacks for their free self expression? Or are they a way...

Mp`s vote against Compulsory Sex Education in Schools

As the Law in Great Britain currently stands all state schools are required to cover th...

Many people will not be familiar with the PISA ranking system. With so many acronyms in the education sector - GCSEs OFCOM, etc - most have probabl...

The AQA - assessment and qualifications alliance - announced in October that it would be removing both A-level and AS level Archeology from the syl...

The GCSE qualification is about to undergo a huge change as of August 2017. The changes relate to a new grading system as well as alteration to the...

The topic of grammar schools has always been a contentious one - by having what is effectively an entrance exam, do they pave a privileged path for...