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Relax, Reflect, and Renew: Creating a Productive Summer for Teenagers
Relax, Reflect and Renew – that’s what teenagers do in the summer! Thinking about it, I don’t know which arouses the highest level of excitement: the anticipation of the summer break or the actual experience! Every year – after all the highs and lows of Christmas, as soon as all the credit card bills have been paid in January – people start thinking of the summer. Most people are happy to be able to go on holiday for a couple […]
Brexit and Education: Understanding the Impact on UK Schools and Universities
In the last blog article on Brexit and the effect of it on education, I listed five areas in which experts in education and also students are concerned about. I will be exploring each of those areas in more detail today. I will also be suggesting practical measures that parents can take in order to minimise any potential damage to the education of their children. Below are those key points once again. Exacerbation of the pre-existing difficulty which schools have […]
The Golden Currency: Why the Value of a Good Education Never Drops
Correlation between affluence/education and how people voted in the referendum At present, the future of the country is uncertain, however, one thing is certain from the analysis of the result of the referendum in newspapers. There is a clear correlation between affluence and how people voted in the referendum. Analysis of the election results indicated that most of those who live in the more deprived part of the country voted for Brexit. Only time will tell if those people have […]
A Parent’s Perspective: Securing Future Career Skills in a Changing Britain
There have been many speculations in terms of what the future holds for education before the Brexit vote, and the worry people have has not eased after the result of the referendum. Some of those speculations have come to be realised while some have not, or perhaps not yet anyway. What we have now is a situation in which, in addition to worry and uncertainty about the future of the country, the political situation is such that no one knows […]
Minimising the Risk: Mastering Exam Technique to Avoid Remarking
It must be born in mind that despite the increase in the number of challenges for re-marking exams and the increase in the number of exam grades that are changed as a result, it is still the case that the majority of appeals are unsuccessful. Most requests do not result in a change to the original exam grade that was awarded in the first place. There are things that the student can do in order to make the job of […]
The High Cost of Unfairness: Navigating Exam Grade Appeals in the UK
The financial cost of re-marking Whilst I find it difficult to understand the solution being proposed by OFQUAL – which is to make it more difficult to challenge exam grades, I’m also not too sure about a £10m fund, as I feel that, in the end the number of challenges to grades will keep rising and £10m will be grossly insufficient in the long run. Figures published in the teachers’ magazine – the TES last Friday indicates that it cost […]
The Grading Scandal: Navigating GCSE and A-Level Exam Remarking
An increasing number of schools are asking for their students’ examination scripts to be re-marked. They do this because they believe that the grade awarded by the examination board is not true reflection of a particular student’s ability in that subject. At a well-known independent school in North London – Haberdasher Askes School in Elstree, well over 50% of the scripts that were asked to be re-marked resulted in a change to the original exam grade that the student was […]
Choosing the Best Tuition Centre: 7 Questions Every Parent Must Ask
At this critical stage of the academic year as we approach the summer examinations, remember that extra tuition or revision courses are not the only way to help your son or daughter achieve high examination grades. However, when you have come to the conclusion that sending your daughter or son on a revision course is likely to help, please do not do so until you have asked the tuition centre or the revision company the following questions. What is the […]
The Total Success System: Putting It All Together for GCSE and A-Level Success
Putting it all together for your son’s or daughter’s success at GCSE and A-level DAPPS – Desire, Action, Plan (Organised Plan), Persistent and Sixth sense I’m using the acronym DAPPS to present a few things that need to be in place in order for success to be achieved. For success, the right behaviour needs to be in place and when behaviour turns into habit – a good habit – then success will surely be achieved. Desire Every achievement starts with […]
How to Achieve High Exam Results: The 7 Key Principles of Academic Success
What I have for you are seven key principles for boosting your son/daughter’s Exam Success. I hope they will be handy at this time of the academic year as we approach the summer examinations. Have a dialogue and encourage your son/daughter to decide and be very clear on the target grade in each of the subjects that matter. Get him/her to set achievable goals and put together a brief plan on how to achieve those grades. The written plan need not […]
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