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Here is the 11th in our new series of Psychology blogs – useful for anyone revising for exams or thinking about taking up Psychology as a new subject at A level or GCSE. Research Methods – Research Design – Matched Pairs Design A matched pairs design is when you have different participants in two different conditions, […]

Here is the 9th in our series of study blogs for those studying A level Sociology and GCSE Sociology. Qualitative Methods: Part 2 – Unstructured Interviews As we said in the previous blog (no. 8), qualitative methods use data that is collected in the form of words, quotations and detailed descriptions. In that blog we […]

The warm days of June and July are always the time when schools arrange those interesting and exciting sessions, those trips and visits that enrich the curriculum. Home educated children don’t have to miss out – they can have similar experiences, without the restrictions on time, distance and personal choice that schools have. Now is […]

Here is the 8th in our series of study blogs for those studying A level Sociology and GCSE Sociology. Qualitative Methods Part 1 – Participant Observations Qualitative methods use data that is collected in the form of words, quotations and detailed descriptions. They can provide more in-depth, detailed information than quantitative methods. But their use […]

In this series of ten blogs, various parts of the  GCSE Science and IGCSE Biology specifications will be explored through the context of food.  As well as assisting students revising for their GCSE and IGCSE exams, the blogs also provide an every-day context for science which all readers should find accessible, interesting and useful. Fruit Salad Fruit Salad (flowers, photosynthesis) comes […]

  Here is the 7th in our series of study blogs for those studying A level Sociology and GCSE Sociology. Research Methods – Quantitative Methods In the last blog we looked at quantitative data, which is data collected in the form of figures and numbers. So here we are going to look at the quantitative […]

This is the 8th in a new series of blogs for students revising GCSE Maths, or IGCSE Maths in preparation for the AQA GCSE Mathematics or Edexcel IGCSE Mathematics exams. Some common mistakes to watch out for It is all too easy to make silly mistakes during your GCSE/IGCSE maths exam. Obviously the fewer you […]

This is the 9th in a series of 10 blogs for students revising GCSE Maths, or IGCSE Maths in preparation for the AQA GCSE Mathematics or Edexcel IGCSE Mathematics exams. The Day Before… The last 24 hours before an exam can be a nerve-wracking time for some students. Here is some advice on how to […]

Here is the 10th in our new series of Psychology blogs – useful for anyone revising for exams or thinking about taking up Psychology as a new subject at A level or GCSE. Research Methods – Research Design – Repeated Measures As we mentioned in our previous blog (no.9), Repeated Measures is one of the main […]

Holidays and Home Education Parents new to home education often worry what to do about the school holidays, do you take them all or not, what is the best and the fairest thing to do? I suppose the worst thing parents can do is to be perceived as not being fair by their children and […]