Our latest education related articles

Keystone Founder and Director, Will Orr-Ewing, wrote a piece that was published today by the Financial Times. Will's article considered whether state or private schools are the best option for expats.

Keystone has recently been featured in a round-up of Singapore’s best tuition and enrichment centres in Singapore for every age.

With Keystone recently reaching its tenth anniversary our founder, Will Orr-Ewing reflects on the past decade in School House Magazine.

Parents today take a more active interest in their children’s education than the generation or two that preceded them, so that it’s not unusual for those of us working in education to be asked our views on a “growth mindset” one day or the “outdatedness of the 19th century factory model of education” the next.

Choosing a prep-school in London is often a daunting process and whilst you likely have some fundamental pre-requisites set in stone, we have listed a few points below which you might not have considered.  

When Keystone offers advice on choosing schools, we aim to recommend schools which will best prepare a child for adult life, both academically and socially.

We are delighted to announce that Keystone Tutors has become a registered centre to administer the UKiset at our office in Singapore. The UKiset is a global test designed for entry into British curriculum schools. The accreditation allows us provide test taking facilities to students in Singapore who are required to sit the test as part of the entrance process for UK schools.

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.

NB: Correct at time of writing. Details may be subject to change.

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.