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Living through lockdown and being unable to teach due to government restrictions and current guidelines on social distancing, has led me to reflect on the different aspects of my teaching [...]

We have all been locked down for over six weeks so far due to the coronavirus outbreak. I have received many texts from worried students of mine asking if they have forgotten how to drive. There [...]

In my first blog concerning common driving faults whilst learning to drive I discussed how to steer and how to avoid stalling. In this part of the blog I will discuss changing gear and stopping [...]

Learning to drive can be quite a daunting experience. Often during the first lesson a student will turn up thinking it is easy to drive but it soon becomes apparent that it’s not as easy as [...]

From my experience as a driving instructor the mere mention of a roundabouts lesson (or even a single roundabout) strikes fear into the heart of even the most confident learner driver. Why is [...]

The coronavirus has effected every aspect of life but how has the last couple of weeks changed the life of a driving instructor? With the worldwide crisis there have been daily changes in what we [...]

Have you ever used the .gov.uk find an Instructor website? If so have you ever wondered why some Instructors have a Green tick next to the letters CPD? That tick shows that the instructor is [...]

In my first blog on manoeuvres I focused on the parallel park and the various methods to do this. Re-emphasising what was said in that blog it is important to note that the manoeuvre hasn’t [...]

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