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The techniques that I am about to share can not only unlock parts of your brain but can make learning the dry bits surprisingly fun

How can we help young people make more informed choices about their future.

Free schools are still, despite their relative presence on the educational scene, often either misunderstood or entirely new phenomena for many of us.

Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Victorian love poetry and A View From A Bridge. These literary texts trip off the tongue; they have become divorced from their own contextual references and instead lie preserved in the formaldehyde of the British classroom and if your child has, is currently or will be taking their […]

So, you’ve just had a wonderful summer holiday and suddenly remembered that on day one back at school you need to present the first draft of your personal statement. Don’t panic. Here are some tips to get you started.

The field of Entrance Exams is becoming increasingly competitive with ever more refined selection, and growing numbers of schools having entrance points at ages other than 11 (such as 7+, 9+ etc). However, the majority of Entrance and Selective exams are still sat in the first half of Year 6, and the basis of the […]

Students may be identified as “Gifted” – this means they are academically, potentially in the top 10% of their school’s students in Britain. The key word here is potentially.

It is a well-known fact that although we do not realise, from an early age, we all do Economics and Politics. Any decision made by us on how we pursue our needs and wants has a significant consequence on economic growth and policy decisions made by Governments. Therefore, students who will be the next generation […]

In making education a means to promoting economic growth rather than allowing it to be an end in itself, does the government risk undermining the very critical thinking and balance that underlie democracy itself?

Newman Tuition is delighted to be offering an 8-week online mindfulness course

Over the last twenty years there has been a great push in schools to get students working in groups. Here we look at some benefits of learning in small groups

Here is a list of just a few of the many benefits that parents tell us their children have received from tuition