January 21, 2019
A Good Tutor is the Ultimate Critical Friend
by Harry Hortyn & Callie Phillipson When reading Simon Creasey’s article about delivering tough feedback, we found it interesting just how many of his key points are ….
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November 27, 2018
Why Oxford is the Best Place to Be a Writer, by Dr. Kieron Winn
His poems have appeared in magazines including Agenda, Agni, The Dark Horse, Literary Imagination, The London Magazine, The New Criterion, New Statesman, Oxford Magazine, Poetry ….
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The Oxford Tutorial
Oxford is world-famous for its distinctive style of teaching: the tutorial. Rather than teaching students in large groups, the tutorial system provides students with a ….
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November 30, 2014
Benefits of the Tutorial System: Introduction
For these blog posts I thought I would write a series on the value of the tutorial system of teaching. Oxford and Cambridge, as I ….
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June 30, 2014
How Tutorials at Oxford Summer Courses help Improve your Self-Confidence
One of the best side-effects of the tutorial system is the increase in your academic self-confidence and belief in your own intellectual ability. Being put ….
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May 30, 2014
How Tutorials at Oxford Summer Courses help you understand your subject better
The whole point of teaching is that the pupil leaves with a better understanding (or at least on the way to a better understanding) of ….
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May 15, 2014
How Tutorials at Oxford Summer Courses help you defend your argument better
One of the great strengths of the tutorial system is that you are forced to defend your position. The benefit of having to present, clarify ….
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April 30, 2014
How Tutorials at Oxford Summer Courses help improve your Essay Writing Skills
The Tutorial is structured around the essay you write. Before you go to the tutorial you will write an essay on a question set by ….
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August 30, 2013
Tutorials at Oxford Summer Courses
I’ve just come out of a brilliant Modern British Government tutorial here at my College (Brasenose) and It’s inspired me to write something about the ….
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