Artificial Intelligence has been around since the late 1940s but thanks to the likes of Chat GPT it is no longer confined to the realm of science fiction and is widely accessible to the...
The school holidays are a well-earned break for students after a busy academic year but many parents will be thinking about summer tuition. While it may not have the same allure as paddleboarding at...
Research has revealed that primary school children lost months of learning in the latest lockdown. The study – conducted by the Education Policy Institute and Renaissance Leaning – found that Maths skills have been hit...
Have you ever taken out a tutor with you on holiday? If you already have – well done! If you haven’t, you are missing a trick for a very simple way to rapidly improve...
Everything is subject to trends, even education. A recent book by Robert Peal, Progressively Worse: The Burden of Bad Ideas in British Schools, examines one such trend, and claims that this trend has, almost...
Education ministers and policy-drivers often go to great lengths to emphasise that education should do nothing if not prepare students for the world that awaits them when they leave school and enter the world...
It’s official. Michael Gove, in all of his divisive glory, is no longer the Education Secretary, and will be setting up camp instead in the Chief Whip’s office. Teachers across the country tripped over...
With tablet computers and smartphones becoming ever-more ubiquitous, it is inevitable that they will eventually form an integral part of the educational landscape for our children. Indeed, that is already being borne out, to...
Dr. Christopher Ray, the head of Manchester Grammar school has raised concerns at the Headmasters and Headmistresses’ Conference this year about the ‘hot housing’ process that many children undergo at 11+ and 13+. According...
