The Heriot-Watt University in Scotland is having to provide top-up lessons for first-year students studying science,technology and engineering. Leading academic, Professor Martin McCoustra claims that skills such as solving equations are no longer taught thorougly at school. Professor Brain Cantor, ...
Read more ›In December 2011, we published a post about UK exam boards under investigation. As a consequence of this investigation, Ofqual (department that regulates qualifications and exams in England and Northern Ireland) have made it clear to exam boards that GCSE exams in English literature, maths, history ...
Read more ›Demand for one-to-one private tuition for A-Level Biology stands at second place (after Maths) on our search statistics this week.
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms together with their characteristics and behaviours. How species and individuals com...
Read more ›The days of sloppy grammar at school could be at an end. Teenagers are to be penalised for poor grammar in tough new rules being proposed for GCSEs and A levels. Why are these rules being proposed, and what does your teen need to do in order to meet the strict new grammatical requirements?
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Read more ›Listen to most rap songs and your ears may be assaulted by a cacophony of grammatical errors, dropped consonants and unfamiliar, not to mention uncouth, words.
However, a new exhibition at the British Library, London, entitled Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices, includes a section on rap m...
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