Online Tutoring and Safeguarding in the UK Education is one of dozens of institutions and industries that has had to quickly adapt to the lockdown restrictions. Businesses have had to rapidly engage with technology novel to them, with services like Zoom taking centre stage in the public consciousness. In general, we are using the internet […]
The lockdown measures brought in to stem the spread of Coronavirus have affected us all differently. Within education, it is those students with special educational needs (SEN) that face the most complex challenges. For parents of SEN students, this is understandably a difficult time. Firstly, some SEN students may still be allowed to attend school. […]
Online tutoring and online learning may be the future, but lots will have to change before we get there. As practically every sector of society adjusts to a new normal, many will be wondering which aspects of their lives will return to how they were before COVID-19, and which will not. The business world has […]
GCSE and A-Level Exams 2020 – The following is based on information provided by Ofqual on 3 April and 15 April. In lieu of this summer’s public exams, the Department for Education has set out plans to calculate grades. There are two stages to this process. Firstly, schools and colleges must make a judgement as […]
These are unprecedented times and there is scarcely an industry or sector unaffected by the measures put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19. Following school closures in the UK, thousands of students and their parents have had to acclimatise to a new normal; working from home with only remote contact with teachers, supervisors […]
Lotus Tutors is Oxford and Oxfordshire’s only local, family owned home tutoring company to be independently reviewed by The Good Schools Guide. The Good Schools Guide review represents a hallmark of excellence in UK’s private tutoring industry. The review makes Lotus Tutors among the few premium and select tutoring companies in the whole of UK, […]
Blog article by Paul Hastings I have noticed that the Wellcome Foundation is engaged in a number of Education research projects with schools and universities. One project being conducted by Durham University focuses on Teensleep. This project has been funded as part of a joint initiative with the Wellcome Trust to explore how insights from […]
Putting the right values at the heart of tutoring by Adam Muckle A good tutor has a passion for helping children to learn – the core skill that is needed long after school years are left behind. In a one-to-one environment, there is the time and the space to build rapport with the tutee and […]
European language learning at all levels is suffering in the post-Brexit world, but the truth is it has been ailing for a long time. For English-speaking students, part of the challenge is persuading them that speaking and understanding languages other than English can be relevant and useful to them in a world where English is […]
