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When A levels go wrong: Clearing or Retakes?
It’s now only one week until CIE A level results are released and nine days until the other boards’ results are released. You’ve applied through UCAS, you’ve got your firm and insurance offers confirmed, so what happens if you don’t make the grades? First of all: don’t panic! You’re not alone – over 60,000 students [...]
Preparing for University Application – Choices, Choices, Choices
The summer holidays are for relaxing and unwinding after a long year of studying and exams, but they’re also the ideal time to begin thinking about university applications if you’re about to start Year 12, Year 13, or a gap year. Recent statistics show that more and more students are dropping out of university before [...]
Things We Don’t Know: Traumatic Brain Injury and Ageing
Written by Sofia Amirbayat Edited by Rowena Fletcher-Wood The brain is a complex organ that has a natural ability to adapt and change with time; it is made of about 100 billion neurons, able to connect to each other in networks and pathways. What makes these networks is our lived experiences with the world and [...]
Review of the Year: a message from the Principal
“Firstly, I would like to say how thrilled I am to have joined the exceptional team at Greene’s in January. It’s been fantastic to witness the progress that students have made in this short time, whether they are here for the full two-year A level programme, GCSEs, or retaking past exams. We have repeatedly seen [...]
Tutor Drinks Reception
It was a great pleasure for us to arrange a summer drinks party on Wednesday 3rd July, as a small gesture to say thank you to our excellent tutors. They are the engine of Greene’s success and it is they who guide and inspire our students to the confidence and improvement that is associated with [...]
Edward Greene – 8th October, 1937 to 17th October, 2018
Edward Greene passed away at his home on Pembroke Street in central Oxford on 17th October, 2018. Edward Greene started the tutorial college that bears his name in 1967, in central Oxford. It was known as Edward Greene’s Tutorial Establishment and was the first of its kind in Oxford. Edward’s larger than life personality ensured [...]
A level retake results – 2017-18
A level retake results at Greene’s 2018 Retaking ones A levels takes courage and is hard work. Dealing with the initial disappointment and then rising to the challenge of another year of A level study is impressive. Many congratulations to all the Greene’s students who showed the determination and courage to retake their A levels [...]
University destinations 2018
Excellent A level grades and University destination results are almost all in… Many congratulations to all the Greene’s students for their A level grades and who are now heading off to their chosen universities. Congratulations and wishes of good luck to Bella and Ilaeira who are both going to Cambridge to study English Literature; to [...]
A level Geology field course, Jurassic Coast, Dorset, UK
Over four days in April 2018, Dr Alexander Mitlehner took students from Greene’s to visit geological exposures spanning some 180 million years of the Earth’s history; going back in time from the Tertiary clays and sands around Barton-on-Sea back to the earliest Jurassic strata exposed in cliffs around Lyme Regis, in the far west of [...]
Greene’s signs Friendship Agreement with Hefei No. 6 College, A level Centre
Greene’s has signed a Friendship Agreement with Hefei No. 6 College, A level Centre. Hefei is the capital and largest city of Anhui Province in China. A prefecture-level city, Hefei is the political, economic, and cultural centre of Anhui. The partnership with Hefei No. 6 College, A level Centre will allow us to work together [...]