A great education should be a rewarding, energising experience that prepares young people for a life of unlimited possibility. But for too many, formal education achieves the precise opposite: alienating rather than engaging, demoralising rather than encouraging, convincing students of nothing so much as their own inadequacy.

This is not only wasteful – tragically so – but entirely preventable. That is why, at Curriculum.com, we have created a state-of-the-art online educational programme that combines the latest educational assessment technology with the very best teaching practice to give every student the personalised support they need to reach their true potential. By carefully assessing what our students have and have not learnt, do and do not understand, and can and cannot do, we are able to identify the obstacles to learning each of them faces. Having revealed the precise misconceptions, knowledge gaps and skills deficits that are holding them back, we are then able to focus our live, small-group tutorials on our students’ individual needs, giving them the tailored support they need to progress.

What is more, because capability breeds confidence, we find that small early steps quickly become giant strides as our students not only gain new knowledge and skills, but develop a new attitude towards education, rediscovering the natural curiosity and inquisitiveness that, if carefully nurtured, will fuel in each of us a life-long love of learning.