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Tutoring in your own home, at your own convenience

Today's schooling typically doesn't allow any room for individual learning, which means that students who don't suit the pace of the whole class can fall between the cracks. If students aren't achieving at the level they are capable of, their learning can stall, leading to boredom and frustration. Their confidence can suffer and they won't enjoy school as much as they should.

I can help. I offer personal tutoring in a range of subjects for NCEA and Cambridge International Exams, and can provide students with the skills and confidence they need to achieve their potential.

I'm based in Auckland and will come to your home at a time that suits you, for maximum convenience and maximum learning. Because the home is a familiar environment, it's where the student is the most comfortable – this is an important part of enjoying learning.

With regard to the October 2021 vaccination directive for home-based educators, I am fully vaccinated and have had a second booster.

Ian Mander.

PS. In the last handful of years I've also been vaccinated against tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough – the last of which in November 2024 had an epidemic declared in New Zealand.

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27 October 2024 – UK MP of science has dyslexia

Sorry, I've been meaning to post something about this Guardian story for several weeks. Peter Kyle, the UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, is "profoundly dyslexic". He left school with no qualifications and got a job with Body Shop – after five applications. His boss, Anita Roddick (the founder of Body Shop), encouraged him to go to university, and after three failed applications (and going back to school at 25) he was mysteriously accepted.

He found out later that Anita had threatened the university she would return her honourary doctorate if they didn't accept him. Peter Kyle is a firm believer that we need more education and better education, and good on him. Also good on him for not giving up!

One of the guys I did physics with at Auckland University was dyslexic. Famous lecturer in a hallway after looking at student's work: Are you dyslexic or something? Student: Um... actually yeah. Lecturer: Oh.

13 June 2024 – Quaden Bayles, actor

Quaden Bayles has come a long way since he appeared distraught in a video posted by his mother in February 2020. This year he appeared in his second movie, Furiosa, part of the Mad Max saga. Now 13, he played the part of War Pup. He's doing well. Really well. Read more at RNZ, where director George Miller praises Quaden for his quiet confidence and calmness in the midst of movie-making chaos.

2 February 2024 – Present situation

Sorry, my schedule is now full and I'm unable to accept new students.

Ian.

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It used to be that each village had an idiot, but now those village idiots can converge
online in communities, which create echo chambers that reinforce those beliefs.

– Dr Jarrod Gilbert, sociologist and the Director of Criminal Justice
at the University of Canterbury.