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TUITION
Online tutorials with trained academics
Tailored to your needs, ability and schedule
TUITION
Online tutorials with trained academics
Tailored to your needs, ability and schedule
A LEVEL TUITION
Online tutorials with trained academics
Tailored to your needs, ability and schedule
Dr. Jane Orton is an independent scholar with degrees from Durham, Oxford, Edinburgh and Bologna Universities, covering politics, philosophy, classics, religious studies, anthropology and history. She has sixteen years of tutoring and lecturing experience, as well as experience marking A Level and undergraduate exams. Depending on your topic, we might recommend that some tutorials are taken with one of our other fellows (for example some language and history topics) but as an A level or Highers student, it’s likely you’ll be working with Jane in the first instance. Here, she describes what it’s like to work with her…
“Tutorials tend to be quite informal, as I find that students work better in a relaxed environment where they can build confidence and aren’t afraid to ask questions! Quite often students are surprised to find how quickly sessions go by and how much material we’ve covered in the time we’ve spent together. We might spend one session focusing on content for a particular topic, followed by another session devoted to essay planning, feedback and what examiners are looking for. The tutorials will be planned around your needs and I’ll also be able to provide you with topic summaries directed at the content required by your exam board.
Our tutorials will be geared towards what you need to know for your exams, but we won’t lose sight of what makes your topic exciting – it’s likely that you chose your topic as it interested you, and that interest needn’t be sacrificed for the sake of checking off a list of exam board requirements! I’m a huge believer in adventure – I’m also a boxer, I ride a Honda 600cc Hornet and have toured America on Harleys and other cruisers as a musician. I don’t believe that being a scholar should mean being cut off from the real world or confined to a library. My anthropological fieldwork takes me to the Himalayas, where I’ve researched wish-granting entities and hidden lands (read about this here). Your A Level studies should be exciting, empowering and part of your own intellectual adventure.”
“I had the pleasure of watching Jane teach a highly inquisitive A level student, who favoured and thrived from an interdisciplinary approach to learning. Jane, a polymath herself and one of the most extraordinary and inspirational people I’ve ever met, guided the student to succeed in securing a place in their preferred University, within a very challenging time frame. Jane has a unique ability to tailor each course to meet the needs of her students. By adapting and combining different areas of the humanities, she offers the students a much more rounded and effective learning experience, giving them the tools they need to produce impressive work and achieve their goals.”
- Themis Gikopoulou
