How we write and check our content

Factual claims get checked against the primary source and linked to it, so you can go and read it yourself. Usually that means:

• •Exam boards (AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC) for specifications, grade boundaries and entry deadlines.
• •Ofqual and the Department for Education for rules, policy and national statistics.
• •The Education Endowment Foundation and peer-reviewed research for claims about how students learn.

If a figure comes from a secondary source, we say so. If we can't find a reliable source, the claim comes out rather than getting hedged into the text. Anything drawn from our own classroom experience is labelled as exactly that.

The named author owns the article. Before it goes live they work back through every factual claim to the source it came from, and to more than one source where sources disagree.

There are two of us, so there is no editorial board and we won't invent one. What we can tell you is that nothing publishes until a named human has read it, checked it and put their name on it.

Exam information dates fast. A guide that was right last summer might be wrong by this one. We revisit an article when:

• •An exam board, Ofqual or the DfE changes a specification, assessment arrangement or deadline.
• •New national data lands, usually on results day in August and again in January.
• •A source we cited is updated, corrected, moved or withdrawn.
• •Something on our side changes: prices, group sizes, subjects, how we run sessions.
• •A year has passed. Every evergreen guide gets an annual look whether or not anything else has triggered it.

Substantive updates move the “last updated” date. If that date hasn't moved, nothing material has.

Spotted something wrong? Email hello@tugotutors.com with a link to the page and a line on what looks off. That's enough to get us looking.

Two kinds of correction, handled differently.

Changes that affect meaning. A wrong figure, date or deadline. A misattributed source. A claim that turns out not to hold up. We fix it and add a short note at the foot of the article saying what changed and when.

Changes that don't. Typos, grammar, broken links, formatting. Fixed without a note, on the basis that a correction log full of comma fixes is no use for finding the corrections that matter.

Nothing on this blog is paid for. No sponsored posts, no paid links, no affiliate scheme, and nobody outside the company sees an article before it publishes.

Our commercial interest is obvious. We sell tutoring, and our articles do tend to conclude that good teaching helps. So when we describe our own service, read it as a description of what we do rather than a research finding. Where the evidence isn't there yet, we say so, as we do on our About page.

Should we ever recommend something we have a financial relationship with, the disclosure goes in that article rather than buried here.