Thousands of parents whose children fall behind in reading will get vouchers to spend on private tutors under plans unveiled by Nick Clegg today. It marks a major new drive to provide “catch-up lessons” for struggling youngsters from poorer families in their first year of secondary school. Mr Clegg hailed the Evening Standard’s Get London [...]
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Archive | Tutoring
Reading vouchers will pay for tutors to help struggling students – Evening Standard
Posted on 16 May 2012.
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Grammar school entry threshold ‘inflated by coaching’ – Telegraph
Posted on 18 April 2012.
Figures show pupils are required to score as much as 99.5 per cent in exams to get into England’s most highly selective grammars. In the most extreme case, children who dropped just three marks out of a possible 420 this year faced being automatically rejected. Nationally, figures suggest almost half of pupils who attain the [...]
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School music under threat | The Guardian
Posted on 17 April 2012.
School music under threat Cutbacks and the back-door privatisation of services are putting children’s musical education at risk Primary school children making music in Tower Hamlets where the music service aims to give all children, regardless of their family income, the opportunity to learn an instrument. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian It’s a weekday [...]
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Students: have you tried working as a private tutor? | Education | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 24 February 2012.
More than any other generation, we know what it means to have to pay for an education. Now some of us are getting in on the act and profiting from younger students’ desire to achieve. As term rolls on and student loans dry up, that tutor recruitment leaflet left in your pigeon hole seems all [...]
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Schools take on private tutors as volunteers to boost GCSE grades | News
Posted on 16 February 2012.
Some of London’s most sought-after “super tutors” are working free in state schools to help boost grades. About 20 tutors, more used to coaching children of wealthy parents such as Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow, have signed up to a new scheme to help pupils at risk of leaving school without good GCSEs. The tutors, who [...]
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Private tutors can earn thousands – Telegraph
Posted on 20 January 2012.
I don’t particularly like the term “super tutor”, which I hear used more and more by the parents who hire me to work with their children. The connotation of “super tutor” is that it is all about being paid very large fees. And while that is certainly part of it, it is not the whole [...]
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Finding a tutor: it’s a cut-throat world – Telegraph
Posted on 20 January 2012.
Once, inquiring about outside help was seen by heads and classroom teachers as tantamount to accusing them of neglect, but today they are more likely to welcome the extra assistance in the competitive and cut-throat world of education. January is peak season for private tutors, with children facing a barrage of exams and revision: retakes, [...]
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Students marching against tuition fees met with ‘total policing’ tactics
Posted on 10 November 2011.
Large areas of city blocked off as 4,000 officers police largely peaceful protest but Trafalgar Square camp quickly cleared
Tuition fee concerns deter students
Posted on 09 November 2011.
Thousands of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are likely to shun going to university due to a lack of understanding about the new fees system, it is claimed today.
Brightest graduates ‘to receive £20k bursaries to teach’
Posted on 09 November 2011.
Top students will be awarded £20,000 scholarships to train as teachers under major Government plans to raise standards in the classroom.
Boarding schools – one way to beat the nanny fees
Posted on 09 November 2011.
Are boarding schools the new budget option for time-poor parents?
Universities ‘preparing to cut tuition fees to £7,500′
Posted on 21 October 2011.
At least 28 universities are considering slashing their tuition fees under Government pressure to drive down costs.
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Parents given £100 vouchers to learn how to raise a child and halt moral decline
Posted on 18 October 2011.
Around 50,000 parents will be given free parenting classes in an attempt to halt the country’s moral decline.
Tuition fees: why studying abroad could now be a first-class idea for youngsters wanting a university degree
Posted on 12 October 2011.
Britain’s rising tuition fees are forcing many to look at universities overseas, as shown by the thousands attending the first Student World Fair.
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Annual tuition fee averages £7,000
Posted on 04 October 2011.
Students from the rest of the UK who go to Scotland to get their degree face an average annual fee of just under £7,000 a year, it was revealed today.
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‘Voodoo curse’ teacher struck off over pupil drowning threats
Posted on 28 September 2011.
A teacher who threatened to place a special needs pupil under a voodoo curse as a form of punishment and called another “Pepsi Max” has been banned from the classroom.
New teachers are struggling to find jobs
Posted on 27 September 2011.
Newly qualified teachers are finding that there are up to 40% fewer jobs this year. Are we simply turning out too many?
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University tuition fees would be capped at £6,000 under Labour, Miliband reveals
Posted on 26 September 2011.
Leader Ed Miliband says the government risks ‘destroying the ambition of a generation’
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Muslim students face finance dilemma over tuition fees
Posted on 22 September 2011.
Bushrat Almari is from Bradford and is studying for a pharmacy degree at Bradford University.
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Language teaching ‘deplorable’
Posted on 21 September 2011.
Language teaching and learning in England is “deplorable” and declining drastically, a senior Church of England bishop has warned.
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OECD: UK student tuition fees ‘third highest in the world’
Posted on 14 September 2011.
The UK is the third most expensive place in the world to go to university, it emerged today, with fears it could top international league tables when fees soar next year.
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Universities follow ‘pathways’ to international students
Posted on 14 September 2011.
An increasing number of universities are linking with private education companies to offer study and language preparation programmes, but pressures to enrol are raising concerns
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Groupon Offers Discount on University Tuition
Posted on 06 September 2011.
A private, Chicago-based institution will be the first to put forth a deeply discounted deal on tuition via Groupon.
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Parents of the past paid hefty tuition fees
Posted on 26 August 2011.
Records of 500,000 apprenticeships show 18th century families paying out the equivalent of the sums universities are about to charge
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Fine art scholar Jarvis: tuition fees would have killed off Pulp
Posted on 22 July 2011.
Jarvis Cocker said that if higher university tuition fees had been around in the Eighties, he would not have gone to college or found success with his band Pulp.
Posted in Learning, Learning difficulties, Tutoring, University and Gap yearComments Off
Universities with the worst employment rates plan to charge maximum tuition fees
Posted on 17 July 2011.
A number of universities plan to charge the maximum tuition fees while having one of the worst employment rates in the country, new figures show.
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Tuition fees go-ahead marks the betrayal of a generation
Posted on 14 July 2011.
There is no mainstream political resistance to the privatisation of education. We’ve no alternative but to try to break the coalition
Posted in At School, Learning, Special Needs, TutoringComments Off
Tuition fees 2012: the official and full list
Posted on 12 July 2011.
A report out today by the Office for Fair Access shows which universities have been approved to charge the maximum £9,000 tuition fee. Find the full list here along with spending on widening access
Posted in Learning, Tutoring, University and Gap yearComments Off
Why our children are getting a sheep-dip education
Posted on 05 July 2011.
Phil Beadle reflects on his columns over the past seven years, and how education has changed in that time
At least 12,000 schools hit by teachers’ pension strike
Posted on 30 June 2011.
Hundreds of thousands of pupils across England and Wales have missed lessons as teachers staged a one-day strike over changes to their pensions.
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Am I the enemy at the school gates?
Posted on 30 June 2011.
With thousands of teachers on strike for the day, Anne Atkins volunteered to help keep local classrooms open – only to be rejected at every turn
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Nightmare for parents as strike hits tens of thousands of pupils
Posted on 30 June 2011.
Tens of thousands of London pupils were turned away from school today as teachers walked out.
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Rich allowed to pay off tuition fees early as Willetts loans shake-up will hit middle class hard
Posted on 29 June 2011.
University graduates – or their parents – will be able to pay off tuition fee loans early to avoid hefty interest charges, under reforms unveiled in a Government White Paper yesterday.
Schools under ‘moral duty’ to break teachers’ strike
Posted on 24 June 2011.
Schools have a “moral duty” to break next week’s teachers’ strike, Michael Gove said today as he urged heads to go to desperate lengths to remain open.
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New tuition fees system ‘mystifying parents’
Posted on 14 June 2011.
Half of parents feel they have not received enough information about the new university tuition fees system, research suggests.
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Meet the super tutors
Posted on 11 June 2011.
Hired to teach five-year-olds Ancient Greek, Chinese and philosophy
Universities need to teach basic job skills, say employers
Posted on 05 June 2011.
Universities should be required to teach employment skills as part of degree courses because employers believe too many graduates are unfit for the workplace, researchers said today.
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4 Ways To Nurture Your Child’s Entrepreneurial Spirit
Posted on 01 June 2011.
Jim Aberman is founder and CEO of Jim Aberman Marketing Company and the father of Rich Aberman, entrepreneur and founder of WePay.
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We’re learning the hard way! Six undergraduates reveal how they’re funding their fees
Posted on 30 May 2011.
Next year’s rise in tuition fees will be just the latest in a long line of financial burdens for students. But there are ways of making ends meet – even without parental support. Ruth Tierney meets six can-do undergraduates who are funding their education with part-time jobs
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Nursery worker, 22, faces jail after hitting boy, 2, over the head with a space hopper
Posted on 18 May 2011.
A nursery nurse is facing jail after she hit a two-year-old boy over the head with a space hopper, a court heard.
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Oldbury College of Sport head teacher in head-butt row
Posted on 18 May 2011.
A head teacher at a Black Country secondary school has been suspended for allegedly head-butting a pupil.
Posted in At School, Internet Kids, Parents, Teachers, TutoringComments Off
Teachers give up making boys read long books
Posted on 18 May 2011.
Teachers are giving up trying to make boys read long books because they cannot get past 100 pages, new research as found.
Posted in At School, Books and Reading, Internet Kids, Learning, Parents, Teachers, Tutoring, University and Gap yearComments Off
LSE ‘may reject maximum £9,000 tuition fees’
Posted on 12 May 2011.
The London School of Economics could become the first elite university in England to set tuition fees below the maximum level.
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Parents angered by schools’ promotion of home tuition schemes
Posted on 10 May 2011.
Parents say tactics used by schools are pressurising them into signing up to home tuition schemes
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I was stuffed on fees pledge, says Clegg
Posted on 29 April 2011.
Nick Clegg has said he was “stuffed” over his broken campaign promise not to raise university tuition fees.
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Now the maths is in, it’s clear: tuition fees don’t add up
Posted on 22 April 2011.
Either the coalition didn’t do the numbers properly or its policy was designed to drag university access back to postwar levels
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Can nothing be done to keep the gap year going?
Posted on 21 April 2011.
My husband and I will be so panic-stricken at the cost of tuition fees that sending our daughter on a gap year will seem like a mad luxury, writes Cassandra Jardine.
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36,000 face losing place at university because of £9,000 tuition fees
Posted on 20 April 2011.
As many as 36,000 students could miss out on degree courses after universities ignored the Government’s pleas not to charge maximum tuition fees.
Posted in Family, Internet Kids, Learning, Parents, Tutoring, University and Gap yearComments Off
Tuition fees reach £8,679.20 average among universities posting price lists
Posted on 19 April 2011.
• Almost 75% of universities have opted for maximum fees
• David Willetts says measures will empower students
• New NUS president concedes defeat in battle to oppose policy
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The fun’s over: students must weigh up the real worth of their degree
Posted on 14 April 2011.
Rising university tuition fees mean finding out which courses will pay off in the long-term should be a priority
Posted in Internet Kids, Learning, Parents, Tutoring, University and Gap yearComments Off
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