Monthly Archives: December 2013

There are many things that boost your brain. An extended piece of coursework is one. Solving little problems one at a time is another.  This is why education should teach us to be problem solvers. There are a lot of … Continue reading →

One obvious way to cut the cost of a holiday is to let schools set their own school year. There must be holidays at Xmas and Easter, but the summer holidays need not start at the end of July and … Continue reading →

Makes you wonder what they were doing in school all that time. Maybe all that money spent on them was wasted. Maybe they should pay it back.

Pity about British students. Most students in British Universties seem to be from overseas.

I can see the point in a professional body for private tutors, but frankly, if they want to encourage people to join they have to not present any prospective member with an £85 membership fee.  

Despite people becoming more qualified than ever before, they are on average now, worse off than their parents. People cannot afford to buy their own house, and many people find themselves in job interviews having to excuse the irrelevance of … Continue reading →

A lot of my students are getting free ipads paid for by their school. One lucky student has been given two. I have been told one school has paid £200,000 of magic money to give students what the rest of … Continue reading →

Our android apps have now had 10,000 downloads. Many complete sets of notes are available as apps on the android store – just search for “a star maths and physics”.

With politicians, universities and imams fighting over what students should wear and where they should sit, I am sure students will learn to ignore them all, and keep doing what they were doing before the fighting started. What we need … Continue reading →