Category Archives: News
SATs: Different (but do-able) for British students
The following article was recently featured in the Fulbright Commission‘s e-newsletter. In it, we discuss the differences between U.S. admission exams and A levels. The American SATs and ACTs can be something of a puzzle for British students. However, having assisted many successful U.S. applicants, here are some hints. First, a word of warning! Some [...]
Justice for the Pendle 10!
Senior Tutor, Matthew Uffindell, researches the story of the Pendle Witches – and the echoes of an extraordinary event which continue to reach us from the distant past. Pendle Hill, isolated from the main range of the Pennines, rises above the Ribble Valley in Lancashire. In July and August of this year, this beautiful area [...]
5 Tips for Revising for Physics
Here are your weekly revision tips: this week is Carmen Marin-Ruano, our Physics Tutor and Science Practicals Examiner, on how to revise for any Physics exam. 1. Never Forget the Unit Do you know the units and appropriate annotations for all your measurements? Memorising things like a Joule= J and a Coulomb= C means you [...]
100 Years Later Stoker Lives On
100 years after Bram Stoker’s death, Carla Neuss explores the dozens of adaptations of ’Dracula’ while trying to understand what made this narrative so unforgettable. On April 20th, 1912, the Irishman who was known in his life time primarily as a successful business man and theatre manager, died of a stroke. But Bram Stoker has [...]
The First 5 Tips for Revising Mathematics
This summer nearly 85,000 UK students will sit examinations in Mathematics for A level. As the examination season approaches, Greene’s Mathematics Co-ordinator, Patrick Finch-Noyes, shares his top five tips for preparing for C1 and C2 Mathematics examinations. 1. Minutes = Marks When sitting practice papers, and eventually in the real examination itself, this rule is [...]
Are you a good man?
Emily is currently studying AS levels in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Economics at Greene’s. Emily is hoping to read Engineering at university. Emily recently achieved 7.5 in her IELTS examination and a gold certificate in the UK Senior Maths Challenge. From the Holocaust in the Second World War to “The Reader”, from the Wave experiment to the [...]
Tuition Co-ordinator – Alison Chantler
We’d like to introduce you to our new member of staff, Alison Chantler. Alison works in our Registry, 45, Pembroke Street as the Tuition Co-ordinator at Greene’s. The Tuition Co-ordinator is responsible for the arrangements of all students who are engaged in individual tuition. Alison graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2007, where she [...]
International Women’s Day
March 8th each year marks International Women’s Day which has been observed in some form since 1909. The day itself grew out of the women’s suffrage movements that characterised the early twentieth century in both the UK and the United States. The women fighting for the right to vote, dubbed the ‘suffragettes’, used various methods [...]
Learning maths: how practice makes perfect
Christopher Upton is the Academic Director of Greene’s Tutorial College. He is a graduate of University College, Oxford and received his M.Sc. in Economics at Reading University. Christopher has worked with the World Bank and the IMF and continues to tutor students in Mathematics at Greene’s. Numeracy is a vital skill in today’s world – [...]