The Tutor Department

All schools will have to teach separate sciences at GCSE to boost social mobility, a key government review of the curriculum is due to announce next week.

Fewer than a quarter of pupils sit physics, chemistry and biology separately, with most taking combined science, equivalent to two GCSEs. Almost one in ten schools do not offer “triple science” and there is a national shortage of physics teachers

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Our 2026 Poetry and Spoken Word Competition is run in collaboration with Sir John Soane's Museum and inspired by its classical collections.:
https://classicalassociation.org/verse-and-voice-competition/

It’s free to enter and open to all, with £2000 in prizes and the chance to perform your creative work in the Museum!

Hello.

Here is a GCSE English Planner for parents. If you are parenting someone who is embarking on GCSE English Language and / or GCSE English Literature, then go ahead and download this. It's a free and straightforward overview of how it all works from someone who has been teaching, marking and examining GCSE English every year for twenty years!

Enjoy (and I hope it helps)!

https://parrotfish.tutordepartment.co.uk/parentplanner-157268

I wonder if this is anything new?

I took evening classes during my first degree because the course involved learning a language ab initio, and I wanted to consolidate the basics.

And I sought help from the statisticians in the maths department, when I took my MBA in Educational Leadership.

Both times, I felt a bit miffed about the university not offering better teaching, but I still had an issue that I needed to solve … I suspect it’s the same for these students.

Within weeks of starting an undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics, Ben** had rehired the tutoring firm that had helped him through his A-levels.

It was an expensive decision for a fresher who was already contending with high rent and tuition fees. Nonetheless, he paid £80-£90 an hour for help with everything from maths to essay-writing skills.

Ben is one of a growing number of undergraduates paying for private lessons. Students say they are paying for tutoring because they became accustomed to having help for their GCSEs and A-levels and appreciate the additional moral and practical support.

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It's getting to the point in the year where parents Y10 parents are starting to ask about GCSE English, so I thought that this might help: it's a GCSE English Parent Planner that explains the shape and content of the course.

https://parrotfish.tutordepartment.co.uk/parentplanner