For those wanting reassurance about educational achievement...

[onwardandupward]

this home educated girl just learned Italian from scratch in 8 months and ended up with a GCSE result in the top ten in the country...

There is a lovely little snippet later in the article, where she mentions her older sister who has been accepted to St Andrews University with NO A'LEVELS - she did some equivalent OU courses instead.

[AbbeyA]

Is a tutorial centre much different from school?

[onwardandupward]

'fraid so Abbey. The "Colchester Tutorial centre" is an agency which puts potential students and private tutors in touch with each other and takes a cut. It's a very common business model - a lot of their standard business will be after-school private tutoring in various subjects, but such agencies are also sometimes used by Home Educators who want specialist tuition for a particlar subject.

This girl and her older sister really are genuinely successfully home educated.

[Bubble99]

Thanks for posting this.

It is a reassuring read, as we will be starting HE next year.

[AbbeyA]

Thanks-I imagined it was like a college. Does every big town have one? I am curious because when looking for a tutor I didn't know where to start.