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Research published by the Institute of Physics in September 2025 found that a quarter of English state schools have no specialist physics teacher at all, and that more than half of GCSE-level physics lessons are taught by someone who did not study a physics-related subject beyond the age of eighteen.

The consequence is the part worth knowing: students at schools without a specialist physics teacher are half as likely to go on to study A-level physics. The IoP puts the number missing out at more than twelve thousand students a year, and found over three hundred schools in England that send nobody at all to A-level physics.

This is not a criticism of teachers. The people covering those lessons are usually chemists, biologists and mathematicians picking up physics on top of a full timetable, and doing it well under the circumstances. The problem is that schools cannot recruit physics specialists: the IoP found recruitment hit under a third of the government target, and that nearly half of newly trained physics teachers leave within five years.

A parent cannot fix national recruitment. A parent can put a specialist in front of their child for an hour a week.

Lessons are one to one and online. Barcelona runs one hour ahead of the UK, so after-school and evening slots work normally without anyone keeping odd hours.

We start by finding out what your child can actually do, which is rarely what the last report said. Then the gaps underneath get closed before anything else, because a student who is shaky on rearranging equations will not be rescued by more content.

Work is set and marked between sessions. The marking is the part that matters: a student needs to see where a real examiner would have stopped giving credit, not be told the answer was nearly right.