What is the correct balance between learning for exams and learning for understanding?
Exam season is upon us. At this time of year students and teachers are rightly focused on revision, exam strategy and past papers. This...
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Lawrence Burns
- Jan 12, 2022
- 8 min
IQ scores - How far do they predict academic and life success?
The first thing to clarify is that IQ, working memory, concentration and crystallized intelligence are all different aspects of...
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Lawrence Burns
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
GCSE Results 2021: 'What do I do if I failed?'
Depending on how your GCSE results came out, results day 2021 may have been a cause for celebration, confusion or disappointment. For a...
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Lawrence Burns
- Jun 8, 2021
- 3 min
Education in Sheffield
Although I work increasingly with students from all over the UK and overseas, a significant percentage of the students that I work with...
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Lawrence Burns
- Apr 16, 2021
- 3 min
What has Spain contributed to world history?
As an active writer on Quora I often respond to questions on the Spanish speaking world. This particular question is one that I thought...
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Lawrence Burns
- Feb 9, 2021
- 4 min
What is the role of a tutor?
A private tutor occupies a unique space in the world of education. Tutors occupy a position that is unlike those of teachers, parents or...
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Lawrence Burns
- Jan 22, 2021
- 3 min
GCSE pass/fail-rate and resits.
One of the most important roles I have as an independent tutor is working with students who are resitting their GCSE English and Maths...
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Lawrence Burns
- Dec 11, 2020
- 2 min
Online Education – Current and Future trends
1. Online education already outstrips all other training and teaching modalities in terms of reach and student engagement. In almost...
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Lawrence Burns
- Oct 9, 2020
- 3 min
Advantages of online tuition for pupils, parents and tutors
In this short post I'll briefly outline the three main benefits of online tuition for students, parents and tutors. Advantages for...
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Lawrence Burns
- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
How to approach GCSE English - Issues that bring down marks.
This post is the first of a series of tips that will discuss how exactly students should approach GCSE English. Each of the posts is...
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Lawrence Burns
- Jun 11, 2020
- 3 min
What should teenagers be reading?
In my experience over eleven years as a private tutor, unfortunately a common admission students have shared with me is that they hate...
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Lawrence Burns
- Jun 7, 2020
- 6 min
Independent Schools and Private Tutors
Tutors through history The stories of Western education and private tuition are so intertwined that a legitimate historical reading would...
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Lawrence Burns
- May 27, 2020
- 4 min
Should students be pushed into tuition?
This is a topic that came up after I answered a question from a student on Quora. Parents pushing students into tuition is an issue that...
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Lawrence Burns
- May 25, 2020
- 2 min
Sitting A-levels after missing GCSEs
I answer questions from students on Quora enquiring about different aspects of the GCSE courses as well as current issues in education....
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Lawrence Burns
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
Careers and Education advice for secondary school students
In my quora space the following question was asked regarding career pathways for students in the UK system. This is an area I feel...
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Lawrence Burns
- May 25, 2020
- 1 min
What is online tuition like?
Generally speaking, online tuition has all of the features of face-to-face tuition as well as many other features. Over time, I have come...
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