My job is to help you get the best possible grade you are capable of, unlock the abilities you have, and help you feel confident about what you are doing. Education in Britain focuses on particular ways of thinking and presenting things. Your ways of thinking may be different. I simply help you to make the best of what you can do, guiding you to produce work in the ways the system requires.

I find there is a need for the kind of learning support that works with a person's natural intelligence and thinking style. Rather than practising frustrating 'corrective' measures, I look instead at ways to use the existing dynamic to solve whatever difficulties are presenting. Confidence, appropriate strategy and determination to complete a task are at the heart of success for any student, and it is in these areas that I base our work.

Here are some of the locks and blocks I can help with:

• Understanding assignment guidelines and criteria

• Effective note-making and summary work

• Comprehension

• Report and Essay writing

• Essay structure

• References and bibliographies

• Oral presentations

• Alternative presentation skills

• Effective time management

• Revision and exam technique

• Grammar, spelling and punctuation