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By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child has read the set texts, memorised the quotations, and revised the themes. Yet the essay still comes back a grade below where it should be. For many parents across Singapore, that gap is the hardest part […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child sits down to a GCSE Maths paper, understands the topic in the lesson, then freezes when the marks count. For many parents across the UAE, that gap between understanding and doing is the hardest part to […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child has read the texts, learned the quotations, and revised the themes. Then the essay comes back a grade below where it should be, and nobody can quite say why. For many parents across the UAE, that […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child knows the case studies. They can describe the processes and recall the figures. Then the 20-mark essay comes back in the middle bands, and nobody can quite say why. For many parents across the UAE, that […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child can revise A Level Psychology for hours, recite every study, and still come home with a B. For many parents across the UAE, that is the part of the course that makes the least sense. At […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child can revise French vocabulary for hours and still come home with a 6. Indeed, that is the part of GCSE French tutoring most parents in the UAE find hardest to make sense of. At Dubai College, […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child is sitting A Level History at one of the UAE’s British curriculum schools. Dubai College, GEMS Wellington, Brighton College Dubai, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Repton Dubai. The content load is enormous. A breadth paper covering decades or […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child is sitting A Level English Literature at one of the UAE’s British curriculum schools. Dubai College, GEMS Wellington, Brighton College Dubai, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Repton Dubai. The set texts are familiar names. Shakespeare, Marlowe, Williams, Fitzgerald, […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child is sitting GCSE English Language at one of the UAE’s British curriculum schools. Dubai College, GEMS Wellington, Brighton College Dubai, Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Repton Dubai. The exam looks deceptively simple. Two papers, no set texts to […]