Nov 8, 2018 | Tutors & Volunteering
“When I got an email from my student to say he’d got a 7 (A) in GCSE English and an 8 (A*) in English Literature, I had to contain myself from shouting with delight in the office” says 27-year-old Emma, who works in publishing. Emma has been a tutor with...
Nov 8, 2018 | Tutors & Volunteering
Ahmed is 15 and sitting his GCSEs in June. He is really bright, and his teachers believe he has the talent to get the grades needed to go on to study biology, chemistry and psychology at A-level. His GCSEs are the first step to achieving his dream of going on to study...
Sep 3, 2018 | Tutors & Volunteering
Prove the angle subtended at the circumference by a semicircle is a right angle. Remember this? I didn’t. Yet I’d unwittingly signed up to tutor someone else in how to do it, and worried that my degree in architecture wasn’t going to get us very far. When I first met...
Jun 8, 2018 | Tutors & Volunteering
By being part of The Access Project’s Medicine Society I have been able to gain a better understanding of what medical schools are looking for, what skills (both academic and non academic) I need to have, what skills I have which are good and what skills I need...
Mar 22, 2018 | Tutors & Volunteering
I vividly remember being told about The Access Project (TAP) when I was 15, only because I was quite terrified at the idea of having to travel to Central London by myself after school. Nonetheless, like most other students at Highbury Grove School, there was no...
Jan 31, 2018 | Tutors & Volunteering
There really is nothing more rewarding during a tutoring session than the student suddenly realising they ‘get it’, and excitedly explaining every single detail back to you correctly. (Sure, it can be hard to get to that point – severe delays on the District line,...
