Independent thinking

Our Managing Director, Rachel Spedding writes in the Independent, on the importance of students thinking for themselves.   

The beauty of an Oxbridge education is that it encourages students to think with structured irreverence, to create their own ideas from the very beginning, while at the same time to teach them to appreciate that they need to grasp a great deal of material before they might reach sound answers. 

Writing in the Independent, the article discusses how the Oxbridge application process is designed to see whether a student has the potential to think independently and laterally so that they may thrive in and benefit from the Oxbridge teaching system. This is why it is so important that students spend time away from their school syllabus, so that they may explore their subjects away from the examination syllabus. 

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