How can you make sense of a poem you haven’t read before? Students studying GCSE have to write about an “unseen poem” – a poem they have never read before […]
Lots of students find poetry difficult and confusing and just don’t know where to start. But the secret to writing good poetry answers is simple: you can’t write well about […]
Summer is a time when many families want to improve their children’s writing and reading. Scholarship English Tuition is available for students determined to exceed their current level of ability […]
Many young people are not sure where their lives are going. Academic mentoring can make a transformative impact, as this recent testimonial shows: “Michael provided valuable guidance and support throughout […]
All families want their children to achieve the best grades they can at school. In his role as an Associate of NACE (National Association of Able Children in Education), Michael […]
Hartland Educational Services offers tuition in all subjects. As a former Headteacher, examiner, Cambridge graduate and NACE Associate, Michael offers a FREE introductory academic consultation to all families seeking tuition. […]
This post in our “Student Showcase” series highlights Theo’s wonderful nine chapter story inspired by Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein‘. We worked on this over a period of about three months, […]
What are we trying to do when we teach creative writing? Some of the more pragmatic answers might include to improve students’ writing skills and to prepare them for exams. […]
Do you know how to use the cool colon? Or how to add a dash of semicolons to spice up your writing? Many students are looking for final improvements to […]
In my experience as an English teacher and tutor, many students do not understand the basic grammatical structures of sentences. So they make mistakes – and mistakes affect their grades. […]
What would you do if confronted by a mysterious growl as you walked through a forest? Our latest ebook, Quest for the Jabberwock, takes students on a journey, not just […]
Introducing our unique Tutoring Proofreader service … where you learn English from your proofreader! Have you written something important in English? Do you need to have it checked and perfected […]
Do you know Austin’s butterfly? This sequence of images is a wonderful illustration of excellence in education. And if you are involved in education you may well be interested in developing […]
*NEW* for 2026 from Hartland Educational Consultancy Services – a series of standalone training events run by our director Michael Hartland. Session 1 Excellence in English (1) – Creative Writing […]
How should students prepare for a university interview? Schools do not always have the spare capacity in terms of time and staffing to provide intensive interview preparation: Our Director, Michael […]
Many families want their children to attend an excellent school in the UK. We provide a very popular service to prepare students for admissions tests and interviews. With our Two […]
University application coaching is one of our specialities. We were delighted for our students who recently received interview invitations at Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College, London. We work with individual […]
Why is ‘Academic EAL’ a unique approach to teaching English to international students? Because at Hartland Educational Consultancy Services, we offer a distinctive combination of academic guidance alongside detailed grammatical […]
At Hartland Educational Consultancy Services, we have been rapidly expanding the range of educational services we offer due to the sheer volume of demand for our work. We pride ourselves […]
Violet has been working with us for over a year and has made extraordinary progress. You can see some of her creative writing as part of our ‘Student Showcase’ series […]
Lam is currently completing her BA and has just been offered a place on an MA. We worked with her to support her English and her application to for a […]
Stores are about life, I tell my students. J.R.R.Tolkein’s classic tale The Hobbit may appear on the surface to be about a little man with hairy feet, and a wizard. […]
Students applying to university want to write a great personal statement about themselves. But how do you make yourself stand out, especially if you are applying to a top institution? […]
How can students get the best grades in English Literature and English Language GCSE? They need inspiration and a depth of teaching. Our ethos at Hartland Educational Consultancy Services is […]
Now is the time to join our Nurture Your Uni Dream programme for 2025-6! Your university application is in safe hands with us. Our director, Michael Hartland, has coached university […]
Our Academic EAL and IELTS support combines the educational and academic experience of two tutors: Michael Hartland, Director, and Jenny Hartland, EAL expert. IELTS examinations require a high level of […]
On exams results days, the world focuses on education. The word ‘education’ derives from Latin, meaning ‘to lead out’. For us, leading out individual learners means aiming to inspire and […]
Every year, over 750,000 students apply for UK universities. But how do we help learners build a successful foundation on which to base their UCAS application? I have been preparing […]
At Hartland Educational Consultancy Services, we offer a distinctive combination of academic guidance alongside detailed grammatical insight to help learners make rapid progress. Academic EAL is our name for this, […]
by Michael Hartland (Director) This story was written by Sukitha, who at nine years old is currently our youngest student. Over a period of a couple of months we have […]
By Michael Hartland, Director How do you know how far a learner can go? I often ask myself this question when I first meet a student for tuition or coaching. […]
by Jenny Hartland, EAL Specialist Are you looking for help to improve your English vocabulary? When you start one-to-one EAL lessons with Hartland Educational Consultancy Services, our English tutors will […]
Would you trust a doctor who prescribed the same treatment every time they saw a patient? Of course not! Unfortunately, students’ experiences of education are sometimes like this. Standard worksheets […]
Many international students are intelligent, highly motivated, and yet the language barrier is getting in the way of their achievement and progress in learning English. The solution is not always […]
We aim to inspire and nurture excellence by developing students’ writing. And we have now empowered one of our students, Anas, to take his writing to the next level and […]
YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE is an essential part of your identity. So when you are looking for an EAL tutor, you want someone who will respect that. At Hartland Educational Consultancy […]
Are you wondering how best to prepare Year 11s for sixth form? They’ve worked so hard for their GCSEs and now they have a long summer ahead of them. In […]
I worked with Lam over a period of about 4 months. Lam is currently completing her BA and has just been offered a place on an MA. It is another […]
Anas worked on this mini novel with me for about 3 months. It developed from our reading of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ and ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens, and […]
Violet is in Year 10. To develop her vocabulary, we read extracts from ‘The Time Machine’ by H.G.Wells. She then worked on her own narrative piece, in which she had […]
We believe that good teaching and expert tuition is about inspiring and nurturing excellence. You will discover our high standards whatever course you choose: Nurture means establishing positive and supportive […]
Summer is here and we are entering a new season too! As we now tutor and coach learners from across Europe and Asia as well as the UK, we have […]
