Once your daughter has settled into senior school at 11 or 13, it will soon be time to start making those decisions for GCSEs and beyond…
Q. My daughter wishes to take French at University and she was looking at Oxford. Her worry is she is doing the IB and is taking French at Higher Level but she also has a science bent and so is taking Biology and Chemistr...
Q. Our daughter wants to change schools for sixth form. Should we worry or not? Her current school is excellent and the college is not as good. We think the main reason she wants to go there is to follow her friend…...
Q. We have just moved our daughter aged 13 to another school where she will be challenged more academically. It was decided to do it now so she could settle in before going into Year 9. However she says she doesn’t ...
Q. Our daughter has been at an all girls independent school from age 11 to year 11. She is just taking her GCSEs but feels that she would benefit hugely from moving to a co-ed independent. Her view is that it will prepa...
In his first year as the Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove has been keen to implement a raft of new initiatives and ideas. One idea that caused a good deal of protest was the English Baccalaureate or EBacc. ...
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