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Minerva online school -any experiences?

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cloughie100 · 31/01/2022 10:20

Does anyone have experience of Minerva online school (they also run Minerva online tutors) - I am considering for my Year 10 child who is currently out of school

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Yetanothernamechange123 · 06/02/2022 18:49

No answer I am afraid - but a bump for you as I have a Year 9 who is unhappy at school. There's also Kings School High - but I liked the blurb on the Minerva website

custardbear · 23/02/2022 22:41

Did you find anything out @cloughie100 - I'm considering this option

itsstillgood · 25/02/2022 09:06

Minerva is very new to the home education scene (despite the blurb). One of several million (okay exaggeration but feels like it) new players that have entered the online tuition/school field in wake of Covid.
That's not to say that they are not good but not tried and tested. I don't think they have been around long enough to have a cohort go through exams.
My advice if you want to try them -
a) make sure to do the research yourself into arranging and sitting exams as a private candidate. Don't trust the provider to do this - they might be excellent tutors, they might be experienced teachers, that doesn't mean they necessarily know about the issues of private candidates. In one notable incident one of the more established online schools taught an IGCSE that at the time couldn't be sat in the UK. People only discovered when they went to book the exams in the Jan of the second year.
b) ask for trial lessons,
c) read small print carefully; how tied in are you financially, any thing else that is iffy

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