Category: General
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Episode 48 – Focus on Social Capital – A new academic year
A new academic year is starting Let’s define the approach for the academic year 2024/2025. What does BE a Scholar Tuition offer? King’s Scholarship remains the academic benchmark that we strive to guide our students to reach in their subject of interests. The approach is to improve the educational environment where possible to ensure efficient…
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Episode 47 – Labour Government’s VAT on Public Schools.
Labour won big in 2024. The VAT on Public (AKA private) schools will happen as a matter of time. (Although, U-turns are not uncommon for the UK government) This will cause a lot of changes as schools fees are significant expenditure and 20% on top in a Cost of Living Crisis and high recent inflation…
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Daily Writing Prompt 1 – When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out?
Just yesterday, I took a risk very recently. I started a crowdfunding initiative to make robotics accessible to every child in Edinburgh. I think it is a risk because this is time consuming, and opens myself to public opinion. I think the project is meaningful and will make a long lasting difference to the Science,…
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Episode 46 – From Concept to Reality – part 1
Value and Deliverables The benchmark from Episode 45 shows that I am a few templates, programmes, and key performance indicators (KPIs) away from some sort of “business”. While every private tuition is trained on answering every and any questions under the sun, I instead want to use our curiosity to find the questions that when…
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Episode 45 – Benchmark against the Private Tuition Market.
Who’s who? My approach is defined so let’s discuss and compare with what else in the Market. The competition is obviously well established and provides value. I have experience as a student, and an instructor of one. One that sprung up all over town recently, one that you can go while you do your groceries,…
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Episode 44 – Checkpoint 7: Community
The Road Map The approach is based on motivation and interests. The free WordPress account will enable the student to create a portfolio to show progress and demonstrate as evidence in future personal statements and interviews. The generic road-map is shown in Figure 1 below. A quick recap The strategy is for the child to…
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Episode 43 – Checkpoint 6: Nurture a Growth Mindset
The Road Map The approach is based on motivation and interests. The free WordPress account will enable the student to create a portfolio to show progress and demonstrate as evidence in future personal statements and interviews. The generic road-map is shown in Figure 1 below. Introduction to Mindset The portfolio is now a collection of…
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Episode 42 – Year 1 round up. Happy New Year from BEST.
Progress so far The project is about half way in the 2 years duration. It looks like I am about 8 episodes behind to 50/99. However, my concept of tuition has really converged into a single strategy, “Succeed in the first interview in whichever subject”. Don’t worry, I will continually work on the wording on…
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My first Daily writing prompt
My perfect space for reading and writing is in a different space / time dimension, where each second is a minute. So I can keep on top of taking care of a toddler, chores, job and etc. It is like a portal into a room in an entire different part of the universe…
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Episode 41 – In this game of Snakes and Ladders, let’s build more ladders.
Opportunities are not evenly distributed. Education comes in so many different variations; private and state schools or even home school. Major events affect each child’s ability to study differently, like health impact from COVID-19, the Cost of Living Crisis, school meals or the lack of it, building safety, and their personal circumstances. The “Class” divide,…
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