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The Times today ran a piece on Keystone Director, Will Orr-Ewing's, speech at yesterday's National Tutoring Conference. During his speech Will explored the reasons behind the rise in tutoring. He observed, "Neither poor teaching nor bad schools were behind parental demand for tutoring". Instead he cited changes to school admissions processes (at schools such as Eton) as well as demographic changes in London.

Keystone was delighted to sponsor Politeia's Winter Address by Secretary of State for Education, Nicky Morgan. Keystone has been a long standing supporter of Politeia's education programme which has been provoking expert discussion and generating wide ranging opinion on curriculum reform.

Keystone founder, Will Orr-Ewing commented in today's Telegraph article on Easter Revision. Will emphasised the importance of taking a balanced approach. He commented, "Easter has become synonymous with exam revision, and families need a plan. Balance is best – it is counterproductive to give over the whole holiday to intensive revision camps."

Keystone Director Will Orr-Ewing was featured in today's Telegraph article on tutoring over the Christmas holidays. In the article Will urged schools to move their entrance exams back by a month to allow children to have a proper break over Christmas.

Keystone Director Will Orr-Ewing was featured in today's Sunday Times article on tutoring over the Christmas holidays. In the article Will emaphsised that balance was important for holiday revision programmes.

Holding crucial entrance exams in early January is causing parents and students unnecessary anxiety over the Christmas period.

Keystone Founder and Director, Will Orr-Ewing, has appeared on both BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio London. In interviews for the two programmes he discussed the tutoring landscape in London and warned parents about the dangers of using unqualified tutors for very young children.

Keystone Founder and Director, Will Orr-Ewing, has appeared today on LBC Radio. In interviews for the programme he discussed the tutoring landscape in London and warned parents about the dangers of using unqualified tutors for very young children.

Keystone was featured in today's Independent warning parents about taking on unqualified tutors for very young children. Keystone's Founder and Director, Will Orr-Ewing, commented, “Three or four is far too young an age for a child to be tutored. The youngest appropriate age we advise is seven, and then only once a week and by tutors who are experienced primary specialists.”

Children as young as three are being put under strain because the private schools market is so competitive that parents feel they have no option but to hire tutors, experts have warned. Keystone has warned that parents should approach tutoring for younger children with caution.

Keystone Tutors was featured in today's Telegraph warning parents, particularly from overseas, about the poor practice of many school placement agencies. Keystone's Founder and director, Will Orr-Ewing, described "misguided, outdated or even counterproductive" advice and stated, "Many overseas parents are unfamiliar with the British independent school system and agree to part with large sums of money in the mistaken belief that it will guarantee a place at Eton, Harrow or Winchester."

Keystone Tutors was featured today in the Times warning parents about poor advice and bad practice amongst educational consultants.

Keystone's warning regarding unscrupulous placement agents was reported on Yahoo news.

The global reputations of leading independent schools are being tarnished by unscrupulous education advisors who are charging overseas parents tens of thousands of pounds for poor advice that fails to secure places for their children, a leading tutoring firm has warned.

We were delighted to be nominated as a finalist in the Education Investor awards in the Tutoring category.

It is the lot of every Latin teacher to answer, each and every year, the same tedious question from the class wise guy: “What’s the point of learning a dead language like Latin?”

“We will soon be nothing but transparent heaps of jelly to each other.”

So wrote the furious New York Times in 1877 at the introduction by Alexander Graham Bell of his new invention: the telephone. New technology is often met by such scepticism – and rightly so. Online education is just such a technology, and it is not surprising to see some parents and teachers respond to it with uncertainty. As the eminent Cambridge Classics professor Mary Beard asserted last week, is not education “about eyeball to eyeball contact and interaction”?

We were so pleased to receive such a positive review in the Good Schools Guide. The review described, 'a very professional operation... We were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of Keystone's fan club, both parents and tutors.'