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Is private tutoring a waste of money? Experiences of private tutoring First of all I`d like to say that as a private tutor for over 3 years I have had a variety of students a fe...

1) Context - the perspective of a successful veteran private tutor. 2) What teaching must successfully be 3) Why teaching fails This is a radical, yet necessary, way to rejuven...

After tutoring AS Maths for numerous years, there are two main messages I would like to get across to all students who plan to start A-level Maths. Firstly, your GCSE grade do not ...

Sprinting is one the simplest, most natural and most primal ways to work out. When performed correctly a good sprint session will work your core, your shoulders, your quadriceps, you...

The atomistic view of time distorts reality. When followed to its logical conclusion it entails determinism in which everything and everyone are cogs in an immense machine. It overloo...

Analysis Participles The 1950s advert could show a form of gender bias in the main headline 'shsh... we're giving mummy a Kenwood chef!' The dynamic present participle 'giving' im...

We have sequenced miRNA libraries from human embryonic, neural and foetal mesenchymal stem cells. We report that the majority of miRNA genes encode mature isomers that vary in siz...

The concept of "idea", for a significant duration of modern political science, has been ignored and devalued in its role in determining political events. As Colin Hay comments: "There...

Playing music can be one of the most rewarding things, but can also be the most frustrating. I started playing the violin at the comparatively late age of fourteen. I had lessons with...

Summer Holidays I am sometimes asked if children should have tutoring during the summer holidays. There is no right or wrong answer to this. Each student is an individual and the...