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...
Read more ›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...
Read more ›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...
Read more ›Thousands of teenagers received their GCSE results yesterday. Congratulations to all our students for receiving fantastic grades!
With a 98.8% pass rate, many students have achieved their goals! The proportion of A*-C grades have risen, with a 3.7% increase in English A*-C Grades!
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Read more ›Earlier this week, The Daily Mail revealed that parents of Folkestone (Kent) threatened to remove their children from school due to new rulings that students will receive homework!
More than 600 parents have signed the petition to defend the cause because of the lack of time their children will hav...
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