Learning Technologies, based in Bucknell, south Shropshire, has developed a range of tools, including a new e-book, to help students memorise facts and figures.
Proprietor Phil Chambers, who travels all over the world hosting ‘memory championships’ says that teachers and pupils will need better study skills due to Michael Gove’s reforms of the current exam system.
He explained: “From 2015 assessment of coursework will be abolished, as will modular exams. Children will sit an exam at the end of two years of study – a similar system to the old O Levels – and there will be a far greater emphasis on fact-based learning and recall, including mathematical equations that must be learned rather than being supplied on the exam paper.
“The changes will apply initially to English and Maths but will eventually be rolled out across all GCSE subjects. So students need to learn how to memorise information. Most teachers have never had to teach students to do this so need new skills and we are here to help with specialist training.”
Mr Chambers said that he was starting to run workshops in schools and these had been well received and was expecting to see an increase in demand for his work.
“There will be a new grading system and a far greater emphasis on memory. In maths, students will no longer be given equations in the exam but be required to memorise them,” he added.
In response to these changes he has launched a new eBook called ‘How To Remember Equations And Formulae’ and is providing private coaching for students and parents in revision, study skills and memory.
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