We’re heading to Dubai to exhibit at the UAE Education Fair, and if there’s one group of people I most want to connect with while we’re there, it’s university counsellors. Counsellors play a role that I don’t think gets talked about enough. They’re experienced, deeply […]
I’ve never believed in staying in one place simply for the sake of it. I trained as a biochemist because that was what people of my generation and background often did. Later, I moved into chartered accountancy because I wanted to understand how systems actually […]
I’ve coached hundreds of students through the IB. I’ve also sat on the other side of it, as the parent of a daughter who went through it herself, and honestly those are two very different vantage points. The question I keep asking her Now that […]
If you’re choosing IB subjects right now, or staring at a UCAS form trying to pick a degree that will “set you up,” here is something worth sitting with: almost no one who has built something meaningful got there by a straight line. And that’s […]
I’ve been writing plays for a long time. Yet the question I’m always asked, especially by people who know me primarily as an educator, is whether the two worlds connect. Teaching and storytelling. Structure and imagination. A classroom and a stage. For me, the answer […]
The tutoring industry has a Tinder problem. Open any of the major platforms and the experience is almost identical to dating app logic. You scroll through profiles. You filter by price, subject, availability. You look at ratings, which tell you almost nothing, because no one […]
The Frustration I See Every Week There is a particular kind of frustration that comes not from failing to understand something, but from realising that nobody has ever actually tried to explain it to you. Not really. Not in a way that was meant for […]
There is a question I hear regularly, always with a slightly apologetic tone, as though the person asking already knows the answer might not be what they want to hear. “Are your fees negotiable?” I understand why people ask. The tutoring market has trained families […]
Parents ask me all the time: What makes Young Scholarz different? It’s a fair question. There are hundreds of tutoring centres, platforms, and agencies all saying some version of the same thing—experienced teachers, proven results, personalised learning. The words have started to blur. So let […]
We guarantee an improvement in grades, with most students improving by an average of 2 bands.