Resources and insights

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child revises hard, knows the content, and still loses marks in Biology. The mark comes back and nobody can quite say what went wrong. If you are in Hong Kong and have watched this happen at Harrow, […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child understands the topic in the lesson, then drops marks on the paper that make no sense to either of you. A missed minus sign here, a rushed calculation there, and a grade that sits below the […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child has good ideas. You can hear them in conversation, and you can see them in flashes on the page. Yet the marks come back lower than those ideas deserve, and the feedback is vague about why. […]

By Russell Greenhill Founder & CEO @ Greenhill Academics Oxford Master’s Graduate • 8+ Years Tutoring Experience Your child can recite the reactions, name the mechanisms, and explain the theory in a quiet moment at home. Then a tougher exam question lands, the kind that asks them to apply all of that to something unfamiliar, […]

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 […]