Blog and updates
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9 Apr 2020
Ofqual Guidance for Teachers and Students on Exam Grading in Summer 2020
Here are the two videos that have just been published by Ofqual explaining the exams grading process for summer 2020.
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15 Aug 2019
A-Level Psychology Results for 2019
Here are some data charts analysing key features of the 2019 A-Level Psychology results.
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9 Aug 2019
Eco-anxiety
Are worries about the climate crisis and the multitude of environmental challenges facing us and our families making us ill? This BBC Radio report asks whether eco-anxiety is different from any...
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22 Jul 2019
AQA A-Level Psychology Virtual Staffroom Nears 4,000 Members!
Almost 4,000 A-Level Psychology teachers are now active members of the largest group of Psychology teachers in the UK!
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17 Jul 2019
Psychological ownership of apps
This piece from the Conversation argues that tech firms such as Facebook and Uber are able to leverage commercial gains from when users build a relationship with a faceless technology such as a...
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16 Jul 2019
Brenda Milner celebrates her 101st birthday!
Brenda Milner is 101 today. The celebrated Canadian is widely credited with pioneering the field of cognitive neuroscience and has been called one of the world’s foremost authorities on memory.
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4 Jul 2019
Psychology Teacher Survey 2019
Win £200 of tutor2u Psychology resources for your school or college by adding your opinions to the 2019 Psychology Teacher Survey.
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1 Jul 2019
Sans Forgetica - Could it help improve memory and tackle dementia?
This short video looks at the marketing campaign for Sans Forgetica which is a new font built on the psychological principle of desirable difficulty. Minor obstructions to the reading process force...
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7 Jun 2019
Grade Booster Exam Workshops for AQA A-Level Psychology in 2020
The dates and locations for our 2020 programme of AQA A-Level Psychology Grade Booster Exam Workshops are now available.
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29 May 2019
ASMR's Effects on the Brain & The Body
A wacky video from Wired in which a neuroscientist explains Autonomous sensory meridian response's effects on the brain & the body.
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28 May 2019
How Smartphones Sabotage Your Brain's Ability to Focus
This video from the Wall Street Journal argues that addiction to smartphone emails and notifications has a cost in terms of our attention and ability to focus.
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12 May 2019
Turn Your Creative Ideas into Professionally Designed Resources
Do you have lots of creative and innovative ways to teach Psychology? If so, get in touch and your ideas could be turned into professionally designed resources.
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27 Jan 2019
‘Hangxiety’ - The Impact of Alcohol on the Bran
This Guardian article explores the impact of alcohol on the brain, including a potential cause of anxiety.
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18 Jan 2019
The Psychology of Winning
Here is a special video documentary from the Economist looking at recent developments in sports psychology used with elite sportsman and sportswomen. Is sports psychology a phoney science or can...
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30 Nov 2018
Introducing the 2018 tutor2u Christmas Quiz...with a Psychology bonus!
We're delighted to announce that the annual tutor2u Christmas Quiz for 2018 is now live!
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17 Nov 2018
Reliability and validity - Kilogram gets a new definition
Scientists have voted to change the definition of a kilogram after more than 100 years. Read about it here.
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23 Sept 2018
Professor of Positivity
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker claims our life is actually getting better. Channel 4 News interviews him on his perspective.
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22 Jul 2018
What Happens to Your Brain When You Play Fortnite...
The psychology of computer games is explored in this short video which explores what happens to the brain when playing Fortnite.
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17 Jul 2018
Two New Resources Published for IB Diploma Psychology Covering Developmental Psychology
tutor2u IB Psychology has just published two new essential teaching resources to support colleagues delivering the Developmental Psychology topic for IB Diploma Psychology.
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15 Jul 2018
Top Ten Psychology Movies to Get You to The End of Term!
As is often the case in English Departments across the country, students read the book and then get to watch the film afterwards without the guilt of pulling a movie-based lesson! However, in the...
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