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Monday, October 22nd, 2012
More Expats are Hiring Private Tutors to Prepare Children for School in Other Countries
Private tutors are now being employed by expat families to prepare their children for schools in foreign countries, according to leading private tuition agency, Tutors International. British and US expat families are turning to private tutoring organisations like Tutors International to prepare children for school in their destination country. Adam Caller, founder of the Oxford-based private tuition agency and a...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Gene link to poor reading skills
A common genetic variant may be partly to blame for poor reading ability, research suggests. The variant, carried by more than one in seven people, has already been associated with dyslexia. Tests by the University of Oxford found people carrying the key sequence tended to perform worse than average in tests of their reading ability. But the study, published in...
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