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Monthly Archive: August 2015

27th August

Blog Stories

A recipe for success… Learning essentials and The Great British Bake Off

It’s impossible to miss the phenomena that is Great British Bake Off as Mel and Sue and baking veteran Mary Berry and silver fox Paul Hollywood put the hopefuls through their paces. Soggy bottoms, lion shaped loaves and melting mousses are a regular topic for debate in the UFA offices and team members already have

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21st August

Blog Stories

Russian Dolls, sticks of rock and other useful metaphors.

Our approach to training Peer Tutors is, like all of our training, underpinned by our 10 Learning Essentials.  These are like the letters running through a stick of UFA rock. All of our training seeks to embody these. But for our Peer Tutor training we need another metaphor too.  We often explain this process using

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12th August

Blog Stories

Celebrating Young People on UN International Youth Day

UN International Youth Day provides us with a good opportunity to think about the achievements of our own young people here in the UK. They are our country’s future and will be part of the future of other international communities too. So where are the headlines in our national newspaper today, or any other day,

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7th August

Blog Stories

Straight from the horse’s mouth…

At UFA we believe in peer tutoring, in the benefits to the school, the community, the teachers and of course to the young people involved. A great deal of research and evaluation has been carried out across the globe to measure the impact on learning, performance and on the confidence and wellbeing of all the

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