Category Archives: News
Thank You, NASA!
An incredible book called ‘Our Changing Planet, The View From Space’, has just landed at Greene’s, direct from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre. Having watched NASA’s Steve Graham give his Hyperwall talk, “Overview of NASA’s Earth Observing Satellites and Models” at the European Geoscience General Assembly in Vienna recently, this book is a welcome edition to the [...]
Rhinos without borders take flight
Conservation group Rhinos Without Borders have captured today’s headlines thanks to BBC News who ran a home page story ‘How do you make a rhino fly?’. It may well sound like a line from the ‘Do elephants fly in jumbo jets’ book of jokes, but no. It’s a serious story about the conservation group’s anti-poaching [...]
Rock Star’s Global Tour Announced
What a month March has been for breaking stories in the world of Geoscience providing much debate and excitement at Greene’s. Today we learn that London’s Natural History Museum is sending one of its most delicate fossil specimens of Archaeopteryx, the so-called ‘first bird’ on a global tour starting in Japan. Accompanying the bird will [...]
New evidence of earliest life discovered
Researchers from University College London (UCL) have discovered fossil evidence for the earliest life forms yet found on Earth. Microscopic filaments of primitive bacteria recovered from a sequence of iron-rich sedimentary and volcanic deposits located in northern Quebec, Canada which push back the record of life on Earth to some 4.2 billion years ago, some [...]
The R.A. Butler Prize for essays in Politics and International Studies
Eliza Harry, a student at Greene’s, has been awarded the prestigious R.A. Butler 2016 second prize for her essay: “Is there a meaningful distinction between economic and political power?” There were 104 entries to the essay competition – a record. Eliza’s achievement is considerable and we warmly congratulate her for her success. The judging panel [...]
Aptitude tests: preparing for an unpreparable test
As university application season approaches, many students will be gearing up to take one of the many aptitude tests increasingly used by top universities to differentiate between the brightest candidates. Aptitude tests assess general academic skills and thought processes rather than academic achievement or concrete subject knowledge, so many assume they cannot be prepared for [...]
The new-look SAT and the ACT
Students aiming for admission to a U.S. university will doubtless be familiar with the SAT and ACT, two different aptitude tests that are designed to enable admissions tutors to assess the suitability of applicants to academic study. What they may not realise, however, is that the SAT has recently undergone its biggest overhaul for decades [...]
Post results services 2016
Head of Examinations, Dr Agnieszka Balicka, writes We are almost at the end of the summer examination cycle. We hope that you will achieve your desired grades and enter into the next chapter of your life with a smile and confidence. Those of you who sat CIE exams are most likely aware that results day [...]
Greene’s tutor makes Boat Race history
On 11th April, 2015, one of Greene’s tutors will be making history. Shelley Pearson, a tutor on our U.S. SAT preparation courses, will row for OUWBC (the Oxford University Women’s Boat Club) in the 70th Women’s Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. Shelley rowed at Harvard University and competed at the World Junior Championships twice, winning [...]
GCSE and Edexcel IGCSE results 22 August 2013
Tomorrow is results day for GCSE and Edexcel IGCSE candidates. Results will be available on Greene’s Online from 6am tomorrow, Thursday 22nd August for all Greene’s students and private candidates who have taken GCSEs and Edexcel IGCSEs with us. Greene’s Online has been updated and so will look different from the last time you logged [...]