Mnemonics are memory aids. They are sometimes a single sentence, sometimes entire paragraphs. An English tutor friend of mine told me that he invented a labyrinthine mental trail around Canterbury Cathedral, populated by characters which he then taught to his students to help them recall the order o...
Read more ›Private tutors can be proud: this year's A-level exam results have broken all previous records. Here's our run-down of what today's A-level results mean for our tutees and the other 310,000 students who sat their exams this year:
Record A-level results
More than half of all grades were As or Bs, a...
Read more ›It's natural for parents to look for their children's strengths and special gifts, but some children really do seem to have a gift for learning that others can only dream of. Here we look at three famous child prodigies from the academic and musical worlds and find out what happened to them...
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Read more ›The Centre for Policy Studies has recommended that two thirds of the current educational Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations (Quangos) be scrapped.
Educational Quangos are responsible for the development of the exam system, curricula and teacher training among other aspects, meaning the...
Read more ›The last month has seen a stream of interest in the two World Wars as these events begin to fade from living memory. In the UK, the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, our last two veterans of World War I, have sparked a time of national remembrance.
Meanwhile, in Germany this week, a 90-y...
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