Are School Exams Getting Easier - Or is it the Result of Simpler School Curriculum Content?

Jan. 16, 2012 - PRLog -- Tutors International founder, Adam Caller, today announced his concern over the standards of school-based education. Unperturbed by recent reports that exam boards and teachers are colluding to help students to pass exams, Caller stated, “A shake-up of the school-based education system in general is needed.”

Caller left classroom teaching in 1996, and became an education consultant before founding leading private tutoring service, Tutors International (http://www.tutors-international.com) in 1999. “When I was last teaching in schools, I was using my old Year 10 notes to teach an A-level class. There have been 15 years of erosion in the quality and breadth of the content in the school syllabus since then, and the exams at the end of it simply match the dumbed down core curriculum,” he says.

Keen to point out that this was no fault of the students, Caller went on to say that while pupils are achieving fantastic grades, and entering top universities, they are leaving the traditional education system with a less rounded education than previous graduates:

“At Tutors International we place only the very best private tutors, recruited from the best universities, who have achieved excellent grades throughout their education. But the qualities we additionally look for in our home tutors are those of politeness, respect, and a degree of cultural education, that seemed to come as standard in previous generations, but is now sadly lacking in recent graduates.”

Caller presented the alternatives to school-based education, amongst which are home tutoring tailored to include lessons in the classics and etiquette to supplement UK curriculum content, or studying for the IGCSE, the international version of the UK’s GCSE exam, which universities look upon favourably in prospective students due to the greater demands it places on the students.

Caller states, “I am increasingly seeing graduates from leading universities who have a mediocre range of knowledge, appalling spelling, and bad manners. Private tuition is an excellent way to address these failings at an early age.”

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About Tutors International
Tutors International is a worldwide organization providing experienced private tutors to work with children of all ages and nationalities. Tutors are available for full-time tutoring positions, for major support and tutoring outside school hours, or for home-schooling. Tutors International is able to source the best international tutors including multilingual travelling teachers to accompany families travelling around the world, or those whose lifestyle necessitates frequent travel, in order to maintain consistency in education in extraordinary circumstances.

Tutors International was founded by Adam Caller who has tutored students of all ages. He has received specialist training in dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder and is very sensitive to children's educational difficulties. He has now turned this expertise to recruiting, training and placing other tutors to help families.