Blog Posts tagged R

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Group Tuition or Private One-To-One Classes? The New Debate

by Anna Michaelidou

A big question that often comes with private tuition is whether private one-to-one tuition is the best way forward - or is group tuition the way to go? More parents than ever are paying for private tuition to top up their children's education, to ensure they can compete with their peers and secure a...

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Understanding Learning Styles; Is your Learning Style Compatible with Online Education?

by Anna Michaelidou

Online education is everywhere, everyone knows about it and more and more people are starting to use it. It's popular, it's advanced and it gets results. Let's face it, everything you need to know about anything is right at your fingertips, from how to write an eBook, to finding the perfect home tut...

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Do the Classics put teenagers off reading?

by Sarah Adams

The Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and children's author David Walliams issue a call to publishers and schools to make English pupils Europe's most literate.

Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan argued that:

Books by Authors including Jane Austen and Charles Dickens should be made available for...

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High Take-up Of Private Tuition By Primary School Pupils Revealed

by Sarah Adams

Nearly half of 11-year-olds among some minority ethnic groups in the UK are receiving private tuition outside of school. Researchers from Newcastle University and from NatCen Social Research have been studying how a cohort of 19,000 primary aged children spend their lives outside of school. They ana...

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The Definitive Guide to Choosing an 11 Plus Tutor for Entrance Exams

by Anita Lee

Around about now, many of you will be pondering whether to engage an 11 plus private tutor, or whether you can / should prepare your child for the entrance exam yourself. At FirstTutors.com, we've taken a look through our data, asked for views from tutors and parents and collated it all here to help...

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