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Keystone's Director of Education shares his thoughts on making an effective revision plan.

Ed Richardson, Keystone's Director of Education was quoted in today's Independent. Ed commented on the attraction of British Schools for overseas families. 

Keystone's Director of Education, Ed Richardson commented in the latest edition of Knight Frank's annual Wealth Report. Ed gave his thoughts on why international families are attracted to British private schools.

As a tutor I have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of students, but despite the differences between them I often encounter some of the same issues over and over again.  One of the problems that seems to crop up repeatedly is a lack of understanding of how to organise revision, so having spent time helping a large number of students develop tactics to improve the effectiveness of their revision I have collected together the advice (mostly applicable to all subjects) that I find myself dishing out regularly – I hope that it is useful!

Keystone Tutors were featured in today's edition of the Times Educational Supplement. The article focussed on the growing trend amongst teachers to move to private tutoring as an alternative career.

One topic often discussed in my conversations with parents is the impact of technology on family life.

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One scheme Oxford and Cambridge use to weed out weaker candidates is their complicated application process! If you don’t want to fall at the first fence, have a read of the below which outlines the most important steps.

Keystone was featured in this month's issue of the West Journal. 

This is a striking piece of poetry. Nine books and a good 6,000 lines of poetry into his epic, Virgil breaks from the narrative to address the audience directly and tells us that his work will be read for as long as the Roman Empire lasts.

With the summer holidays in full swing, parents will be wanting to keep their children’s minds active, so as to stop the dreaded ‘summer slide’ in academic ability.  However, they may encounter problems.  It can be hard to know where to start when choosing a book; some children are reluctant readers; and others do read, but stay away from ‘the classics’.  With a little bit of effort from parents and tutors, however, these difficulties can be overcome.

The internet has once again been abuzz with a tricky Maths question (following the extremely challenging problem set in a Singaporean exam a few weeks ago). Today's question came from the Edexcel GCSE exam paper. The question and solution are below.

At this time of year, I am often asked where to find decent revision materials. My response is always the same: your child’s rucksack. Parents look at me confused: do I really think that their child has matured enough in the run-up to exams to have finally started making colourful, concise and comprehensive notes? Of course I don’t. Most of them have lost their folders or thrown them into bogs. But, chances are, their rucksack is where they’re keeping their mobile phones whilst they’re at school and it is these little 4G winners (more specifically the online resources they can access) that will light up their cramming worlds.

Keystone director, Will Orr-Ewing contributed to an article in the latest copy of "The International View", Knight Frank's inhouse magazine.

The internet has been abuzz with a Maths problem that has everyone stumped. It was set by the Singapore and Asian School Math Olympiads. The question (and solution) are below.

Keystone was mentioned in today's Sunday Telegraph article on tutoring in state schools. Keystone's low cost after school Latin classes were highlighted in the piece.

Keystone was featured in an article in the Spectator on tutoring. The article highlighted how selective Keystone is in choosing the tutors it represents.

Keystone was fortunate enough to be invited to hear the outgoing Headmaster of Eton, Tony Little, speak last week. To a packed house at the Royal Geographic Society, he delivered an excellent paper for the Old Etonian Association titled… “The New Etonian.” You can view a video of the lecture on the Eton website.

Keystone Director, Will Orr-Ewing was quoted in today's Mail on Sunday. In the article Will commented on how changes to school admission procedures had led to a rise in demand for tutoring. 'One of the most important factors has been that Eton ripped up the system of giving priority to children registered at birth, and most independent schools followed suit,' he said, 'Now children apply to six, seven or eight schools. It's changed the mind-set of parents away from thinking that access to top independent schools is about where you come from and who you know. Instead, it's about how hard you work.'