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The Literacy Edge: The Importance of Reading for Academic Success
Importance of Reading for Academic Success – “Not All Readers are High Achievers, But All High Achievers are Readers” The idea of me reading some fiction story about witchcraft and some silly magic was just not something I could possibly have contemplated. That was until one of my sixteen-year-old students spoke about her fascination with the Harry Potter books, and that was after the third book came out a few years ago. Somehow, I reluctantly bought a copy of that […]
Brain Power: The Benefits of Exercise for Students in 2026
Benefits of Exercise for Students For the last three or so months, well before the summer holiday started, my daughter has been pestering us about wanting to join a gym. Although I’m okay with the idea on the whole, there are a couple of things on which I have reservations, and I will speak about those later in this blogpost. One of my popular sayings in relation to teenagers about the summer holiday, on which I have written about in […]
Beyond the Paycheck: The Benefits of Summer Jobs for Teenagers
Benefits of Summer Jobs for Teenagers 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, he had looked it up on Google, […]
Beyond the Classroom: Essential Life Skills for Teenagers
Essential Life Skills for Teenagers: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 […]
Focus or Friction? Finding the Best Environment for GCSE and A-level Revision
Best Environment for GCSE and A-level Revision 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 environment. We’ve all heard it […]
The Science of Success: How to Revise for GCSE and A-level Effectively
How to Revise for GCSE and A-level Effectively 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 […]
Winning the Arms Race: Your Competitive Advantage in University Admissions
Competitive Advantage in University Admissions 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 […]
Tech & Truth: How to Avoid GCSE and A-level Grade Misallocation
Avoid GCSE and A-level Grade Misallocation 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 blogpost for a link to the BBC page) […]
Grabbing the Bull by the Horns: Proactive Exam Preparation
Proactive Exam Preparation – 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 there […]
Worth Their Weight in Gold: Qualities of a Good Tutor for GCSE and A-level
Qualities of a Good Tutor for GCSE & A-level 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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