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Steve Richards

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About us

The original and still the best? Looking back on an amazing twenty years

Monday 6th September 1999 was what they call a quiet news day – no single event dominated the day’s newspapers in the UK. Tony Blair had been Prime Minister for two years and Mambo No 5 was top of the UK charts! For NSWLearning however, it was a hugely important Read more…

By Steve Richards, 3 years22nd August 2019 ago
Old library boobs
Curriculum

Why we sometimes use old books!

We were recently asked why we sometimes use old out of print textbooks for some of our courses. It was a simple question, genuinely asked and it prompted me to mull things over and make some notes to explain out thinking better. Those notes morphed into an email and now Read more…

By Steve Richards, 4 years14th June 2019 ago
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Exam Centre

A Difficult Decision

UPDATE – With regret we have to announce that the NSWLearning exam centre will close after the May-June 2020 exam session. We worked hard to find another individual or organisation able to take on the exam centre, but without success. Ultimately, the exam board’s requirement that the exam centre had Read more…

By Steve Richards, 4 years1st April 2019 ago
Hand writing
Home education

A bit of a moan!

I am sort of going to have a moan here but hopefully people will bear with me and understand where I am coming from. In recent months at the NSW exam exam centre we have spoken with a number of parents whose children have been enrolled with various learning providers Read more…

By Steve Richards, 4 years4th February 2019 ago
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About us

Five reasons to choose NSWLearning

Let’s be honest, nobody likes the big head at the party, blowing his own trumpet, continually turning every conversation round so that it is an opportunity to talk about what he has done. However, there are times, like job interviews for example, where blowing your own trumpet has some merit. Read more…

By Steve Richards, 4 years28th August 2018 ago
Student upset
Curriculum

Success and failure – its all a matter of worldview

A few years back, I had a conversation with a mum whilst her son was sitting an exam here at the NSWLearning exam centre. We got into discussion about success and failure, in particular what we as parents measure as success in our home education adventure. As we chatted, I Read more…

By Steve Richards, 4 years23rd August 2018 ago
Old book & phone
Curriculum

IGCSEs in a year … or is that nine months!

In a recent blog, we explored the incredible flexibility that home education allows families. In the context of IGCSEs, this flexibility allows us as parents to spread exams out so that our children can sit a range of subjects in different exam sessions. This is a great idea and one Read more…

By Steve Richards, 5 years18th April 2018 ago
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Home education

Flexibility and using it to your advantage

One of the great advantages of homeschooling is the flexibility that it provides us with as parents to shape and schedule learning to fit in with the needs of our individual children. With the best will in the world, schools find this level of personalisation virtually impossible – not because Read more…

By Steve Richards, 5 years17th April 2018 ago
homeschool
Home education

Stacey Solomon and gutsy parenting!

Before I write anything else, I want to make it clear that I know virtually nothing about Stacey Solomon – I do not watch X factor, I’m a celebrity or Loose Women. I do not read The Sun either. However, having read her article in The Sun earlier this week Read more…

By Steve Richards, 5 years22nd March 2018 ago
Railtracks
About us

NSWLearning – why the change?

Back in the late 1990s, when New Labour had just come into office and Steve Richards, our Educational Director, was working with CARE for Education as a Project Manager, it was very difficult to envisage that the small project which began as a workshop idea at a missions conference in Read more…

By Steve Richards, 5 years22nd March 2018 ago

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