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Writing a Personal Statement for Law

A personal statement should be just that, it should be personal to you, a short statement that details your reasons and passions surrounding your decision for choosing to study law at university. However, writing one can be one of the most daunting experiences as it is a piece of writing designed to sell yourself to a university to accept you, [...]

Important Tips For Writing Your Personal Statement

It is an undoubtedly daunting task to sell oneself in a mere 4000 characters. I distinctly remember being told that my personal statement was perhaps the most crucial part of my University application and that without an offensive plugging of my achievements, that Universities would remain uninterested in my application and simply “toss it on a pile” with other rejected [...]

Learning A Foreign Language

Language Experiences

I certainly have to admit that when my mother dragged me to my first modern language private class, I was by far sadder and angrier at her than I was supposed to be feeling. With my hair all wet because of a sudden rainfall - highly unusual for my country - forced to enter a class quite later than [...]

Personal Statement For History At Oxford

As is so often the case words are cheap. Anyone can eulogise on the joys of History and their burning desire to steep themselves in a knowledge of the past whilst studying at Oxford, one of the oldest universities of the world. The snag of course, is that when it comes to a personal statement [...]

Gap Years

Gap Years: Advice for stranded parents.   My eldest sister was the first to broach the ‘gap year’ question. It wasn’t easy, she picked unlikely candidates at first. War-torn African countries topped her list, followed swiftly by areas of the Americas known better for their ‘coca’ than their health and safety records. After much negotiation she picked a more conventional route, and [...]

Is Natural Sciences Biology?

Natural Sciences. It has “natural” in the name so it absolutely must mean Biology. Perhaps it’s the study of animals, or maybe it involves the Earth, but of course there is no doubt that it must be Biology. This seems to be a common misconception held by pretty much everyone who hasn’t heard about this degree - myself included when [...]

How Parents Can Support Their Children’s Learning

In all my years of classroom teaching, raising my own 4 children and supporting thousands of parents through ‘Educating Matters’, I have come to one very important conclusion: parents are undoubtedly a child’s first and most important teacher. Children will learn more from their parents than they could possibly learn from even the most dynamic, talented teachers. Of course I [...]

5 Tips For Writing Your Oxbridge Personal Statement

Writing an Oxbridge personal statement can seem like an overwhelmingly difficult undertaking, and it is often hard to know where to start. Despite the fact that it was four years ago now that I applied for my degree in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, I still vividly remember how daunted I [...]

Studying Law At University

Preparing an Academic Route to Studying Law at University, was written by Abdul a Law Tutor in London. Law stands as an extremely competitive career and education choice. The attraction posed by the prevalent real-day relevance of the content taught and the strong career prospects means UK universities are regularly flooded with applicants; a reality that allows university admissions officers discretion [...]

How To Choose An Oxbridge College

For many ambitious students at the end of their school career, the ideal next step is often studying their degree of choice at either Oxford or Cambridge. Whilst for some students studying specialist subjects it may be argued that other institutions may be better, and for some students the lure away from the UK to a perhaps more well-rounded academic [...]