Blog and updates
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26 Jan 2023
Japan - a population in crisis!
Japan's birth rate has plummeted to 1.3 babies per woman, with births dropping to a record-low of 800,000 last year. A birth rate of 2.1 is needed to keep the population stable. But what has...
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25 Jan 2023
Futuristic Japan heading for the history books?
Earlier I read an article about Japan's 'population crisis' and just as I was about to blog about that, I stumbled across a really interesting piece about how Japan is stuck in a time warp and...
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24 Jan 2023
The Rapidly Growing Magic of the Washing Machine
After ten days without a working washing machine, yesterday, a new machine arrived! I’m tempted to watch it like TV, such is the positive impact it has had on my family already. Momentarily gazing,...
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22 Jan 2023
Flag of the Week - 23rd January 2023
Here is this week's Flag of the Week - hopefully this free and ready-to-go activity will be a great talking point during tutor time, or as part of your lessons. This week we are looking at New...
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19 Jan 2023
Trouble at'Mill
“Daddy, it looks like a monster has come down and taken a bite out of that building” was the comment from my son as we drove past the site of the Lily Mill in Shaw, in Oldham last week. He was...
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18 Jan 2023
A very different World Economic Forum this year?
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) is taking place in the famous ski resort of Davos in Switzerland, drawing in government ministers and chief executives from across the globe, who are hoping...
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17 Jan 2023
Podcast recommendation: Rethink Climate (BBC Sounds)
Rethink is a BBC Radio 4 series presented by Amol Rajan, and inspired by how the world might change after the coronavirus pandemic. Most recently Amol and his guests have been ‘rethinking’ climate...
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16 Jan 2023
Flag of the Week - 16th January 2023
Here is this week's Flag of the Week - hopefully this free and ready-to-go activity will be a great talking point during tutor time, or as part of your lessons. This week we are looking at Canada...
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12 Jan 2023
Instagram daily revision questions kick off next week!
Get your students to follow our Instagram account (@tutor2ugeog) to access daily revision questions for both GCSE and A-Level students. These will start next Monday (16th Jan) and will continue...
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11 Jan 2023
Ghost Town - a fantastic representation of place
A few days before Christmas Terry Hall, the frontman of socially conscious ska band The Specials, passed away after a short illness, and his death got me thinking about the impact his music has had...
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10 Jan 2023
COP15: Nations reach 'historic' deal to protect nature
Just as we were all waving off the autumn term and looking forward to a couple of weeks off, a historic deal was struck to safeguard nature!
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9 Jan 2023
TV recommendation: Travel Man - 96 hours in Rio
Many of you will study Rio de Janeiro as your NEE city case study - with many students focusing too heavily on the negative side to life in Rio, particularly in terms of the favelas.
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6 Jan 2023
Geography News Quiz: 6th January 2023
Happy New Year! Here's this week's 'Geography in the News' Quiz.
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4 Jan 2023
How Good is AI at A Level Geography?
'Discuss the merits of AI-written essays, in 300 words.' Type exactly that into the new chat bot launched by OpenAI, known as ChatGPT, and you’ll be impressed with the results. While many teachers...
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22 Dec 2022
How International Trade Impacts People's Lives Across the Globe
While many students focus on the mobile phone for their study of the world trade in a manufactured product, they might equally well focus in on the rag trade; specifically jeans.
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19 Dec 2022
TV recommendation: How to Survive a Dictator with Munya Chawawa
The blurb from All4 - 'Munya goes on a journey exploring the life of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, one of the world's most notorious tyrants, looking for the man behind the monster'.
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15 Dec 2022
COP15 - "best and last chance" to halt and reverse the decline of nature
Currently COP15 (the UN's biodiversity conference) is taking place in Montreal - it hasn't dominated the news like its climate change counterpart but it hugely important with countries trying to...
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