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Jobs by teenagers over the summer and beyond – paid job or volunteering
Jobs by teenagers over the summer and beyond – paid job or volunteering After my son’s GCSE exams a few weeks ago, he asked me how to compose a CV as he is looking for job so that he can earn some money during the summer weeks. I was actually a little surprised that he was asking me, as he could at least have made a start by doing some research on the internet to see CV samples. Of course, […]
Making the best of the summer for teenagers – Cooking Skills …
Just like the teenagers, the parents are looking forward to this summer more than the previous ones, at least in the last couple or so years. This is particularly an eventful year, and the pandemic, this time around, is not at the top of the news agenda. There are so many other relatively major events – the cost of living, heatwave, war in Easter Europe, disruption to flying abroad and a change of prime minister. One of these – the […]
Revising-GCSE-A-level-in-the-Library-how effective?
Teenagers Revising for GCSE and A-level in the Library – how effective? For the first time in three years the exam season is here – I mean proper GCSE and A-level examinations. We all know the importance of hard work, and teachers and parents stress this all the time in their quest to get the teenager to focus on his or her studies. Hard work is important, and it is used a lot in the wider society beyond the academic […]
21 Exam Success Tips
I’d like to share with you a few tips, which you may find useful in your conversations with your teenager at this crucial period of their life as they face the summer exams. In the last few days, I started releasing a video a day on YouTube, and I am doing this for at least 22 days. The first video is an introduction – a list of all the 21 Exam Success Tips, spoken about very briefly. There are 21 […]
7 Ways for your child to maximise their GCSE or A-level exam result in 2022
The traditional GCSE and A-level exams are definitely happening this summer. In fact, some students have already taken their IGCSE in Maths – including my son, who got his results this week. Here, I am sharing with you 7 key points that you, as a parent can use to supportyour child as they prepare for the summer examinations. It will be more difficult to get top grades this year (2022), as fewer top grades will be awarded in comparison to […]
Education Arms Race – the secret weapon
Just in case you think the title of this blogpost is rather dramatic, here is a headline from The Times website: “The education arms race is out of control”. Actually, The Times is not the only newspaper that uses the phrase “arms race”, so does The Guardian, The Economist, a report by UCL and many other news outlets. Private tuition, or call it private lesson, is nothing new. In fact, it predates formal education, as it has been around since […]
Return to school; Learning technology and Grade Misallocation – making the best of …
Return to school; Learning technology and Grade Misallocation – making the best of … Once again, another school holiday has begun without parents and young people knowing if they will be going back to school at the end of it or not – thanks to the pandemic. Even before the discovery of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, returning to school in the New Year would have been a tricky one anyway. Here is a headline from BBC’s webpage (see the […]
GCSE-&-A-level-examinations-summer- 2022–update
For the third year running the pandemic casts a shadow on traditional GCSE and A-level summer exams. The examinations were cancelled in both 2020 and 2021 and replaced with teacher assessment. The government’s position remains that those examinations will go ahead, albeit with minor adjustments to account for loss of learning time due to the disruption caused by lockdown. We must remember that the government insisted in the months leading up to the 2021 exams that the exams would go […]
Opportunities-in-Education-Grabbing-the-Bull-by-the-Horns
Opportunities Abound in Education – It’s all about Grabbing the Bull by the Horns It’s interesting, using this expression “grabbing the bull by the horns” in relation to children’s education. The expression brings many things to mind. Education may not particularly be one of them. Though on further thought, the two ideas are not completely unrelated. The expression means to have a direct approach to something, which is exactly what this article is about. In addition, this article reveals that […]
Good Teachers are Worth their Weight in Gold!
A Good Teacher is Worth their Weight in Gold! There is a saying that goes “a good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way of others” – a quote from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The difference a teacher can make to the life of a child cannot be overemphasised. Every adult can remember at least one or two teachers who made a real difference to them during their school days. In my blogpost, I highlighted the […]
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