Neurogenetics Institute
Specialist Institute For The Science Of Learning
Understand How
Your Brain Learns
The Neurogenetics Institute brings together neuroscience, genetics and learning science to understand how people learn: from memory and attention to executive function and neural adaptability.
We don’t study these subjects simply for the sake of research. We use what we learn to build practical ways for people to understand and improve how they learn: assessments, learning systems, programmes and a school.
For 15 years, since 2011, the Neurogenetics Institute has studied how learning works and applied that understanding in private schools and colleges in London, UK. Our Online Private School opened in 2024.
The work began in 2011 and has developed through years of study and practical educational experience in private schools and colleges in London, UK. Today, that work is being developed across research, assessment, learning technology, practical programmes and education.
Explore Our Programmes ↓The Institute
Our Programmes
Each area has its own home on this website. Here is what each one is.
Academy
The Online Private School
The Institute's UK-based online private school: live teaching from KS1 through A-Level in small classes, taught by subject specialists.
A structured curriculum with every lesson recorded: a real school, not a course platform.
What happens there
Live lessons on a timetable · subject-specialist teachers · small classes · structured work and practice after every lesson.
Explore the Academy →1-to-1 Teaching
Individual teaching online
One-to-one teaching with a subject specialist, arranged around your learner: a separate pathway from the Academy’s fixed timetable.
Choose this for individual attention on specific subjects; choose the Academy for the full school with a fixed timetable.
How it works
Tell us what you need → we match a specialist teacher → lessons arranged around you. Additional subjects can also be taken as small-group classes when there is enough interest.
Request a Teacher →Synapse
Interactive practice platform
Synapse is the Institute's interactive learning and practice platform: a place to practise what you're learning through questions, with a Smart Score for every skill.
Your scores show where you're strong and where you're weak, so practice focuses on the areas that need it most.
What a learner does
Library
Revision guides & workbooks
Board-specific revision guides, workbooks and free resources: the Institute’s study content, published.
Browse the Library →Assessment
The free Brain Profile Assessment helps you understand how you learn, and gives you a personalised result, including the Learning Archetype that best matches your responses.
The ten Archetypes describe different patterns in how people approach learning: your strengths, challenges and preferred ways of working. It is a starting point for reflection, not a diagnosis.
The journey
1 Create a free account 2 Complete the assessment 3 Receive your Brain Profile 4 Discover your Archetype 5 Use it as a starting point
Explore Assessment →Courses
Practical programmes built around specific learning and performance challenges: live workshops, plus recordings.
Memory: strategies for remembering and retrieving information
Focus: practical approaches to attention and sustained learning
Habits: building more effective learning routines
Sleep: the relationship between sleep and learning
Writing: clearer, more effective written work
Courses are individual programmes. The Academy, below, is the full school.
Explore Courses →Research
The Institute's research explores how memory, attention, learning science, executive function and neural adaptability actually work.
What happens there
Each area is studied, written up in plain English, and used to shape the tools, courses and teaching below.
It is the scientific foundation everything else here is built on.
Explore Research →Flexible Small-Group Classes
Live online classes in small groups, organised by subject and academic stage. Learn alongside other students with subject-specialist teaching and structured support.
What happens there
Live online lessons · subject-specialist teaching · classes organised by academic stage and subject · structured learning support.
Explore Small-Group Classes →The Foundation
Everything Begins with Research
The Institute's methods, systems, programmes and school all rest on the same foundation: the study of how memory, attention and learning actually work. The research informs everything built on top of it.
Start Here
Take the Free Brain Profile Assessment
Five minutes, with a free account.
Answer a short set of questions about how you naturally learn, and receive your Brain Profile, a personalised result showing which of the ten Learning Archetypes you match. It’s a starting point for understanding how you learn: you take it once, and it’s yours for good.
Start the Free Assessment →How It Fits Together
From Understanding Learning to Putting It into Practice
The Institute is not six unrelated things. There is a progression, each step builds on the one before. Follow it:
Research
Studies how learning works
Understanding Learning
What the research produces
Assessment + Learning Systems
Understand the learner, support practice
Courses + Practice
Apply it to specific challenges
Neurogenetics Academy
Bring it into education
Online Private School
The full school environment
The Neurogenetics Academy
The Online Private School
A UK-based online private school built around how learners learn
The Online Private School is part of the Neurogenetics Academy, providing structured UK-based education online for learners across KS1 · KS2 · KS3 · GCSE/IGCSE · A-Level. The school combines live teaching, structured academic learning, practice and assessment, with the Institute’s wider understanding of how learning works. For the IGCSE stage, the school works with the Pearson Edexcel examination pathway where applicable.
What a School Week Actually Looks Like
STEP 1
Before the lesson
Structured timetable and preparation.
STEP 2
Live lesson
A small live class taught by a subject specialist.
STEP 3
Practice
Structured questions and learning activities.
STEP 4
Feedback
Teachers check understanding and flag what needs work.
STEP 5
Recorded lesson
The lesson stays available to revisit.
STEP 6
Ongoing progress
Structured work, practice and assessment continue.
KS1
Years 1–2
A structured foundation in the core areas of learning, with teaching designed to build strong early academic habits and understanding.
Explore KS1 →
KS2
Years 3–6
A broader and increasingly independent programme building knowledge, confidence, learning skills and preparation for secondary education.
Explore KS2 →
KS3
Years 7–9
A deeper secondary curriculum designed to develop subject knowledge, independent learning and the skills needed for future examination study.
Explore KS3 →
GCSE/IGCSE
Years 10–11
A structured examination pathway preparing students for GCSE/IGCSE qualifications, with the school working with the Pearson Edexcel specification where applicable.
Explore GCSE/IGCSE →
A-Level
Years 12–13
Advanced study in the Sciences and Maths, taught in smaller groups with the same structured, recorded approach.
Explore A-Level →
Every Learner Gets
Not extras: the standard experience.
Small classes. Small classes allow teachers to know their students, monitor understanding and provide more focused academic support.
Teaching and technology. The school combines live teaching with structured practice, assessment and learning technology. Technology is used to support teaching and learning, not to replace teachers.
The Institute connection. The Online Private School grew from the Neurogenetics Institute’s wider work in learning science, memory, attention and education. Its educational approach is informed by that work, while students learn through a structured academic curriculum delivered by teachers.
Pearson Edexcel GCSE/IGCSE. For the GCSE/IGCSE stage, the school works with the Pearson Edexcel examination pathway where applicable.
Explore the Online Private School →
Why This Model?
Small Enough to Know the Learner
Classes are kept small so teachers can follow individual learners more closely.
Structured Enough to Be a Real School
This is not homework help or a library of recordings. It is structured education: timetable, teaching, practice and assessment.
Connected to the Institute
The school grew from the Institute’s wider work on learning, memory, attention and education.
Why Families Choose Us
What Makes This Different
Not bigger promises: a different way of teaching. Six things that are simply true here.
Classes Capped at 8*
* Class size based on the plan you select.
Your child is one of eight, not one of thirty. The teacher knows them, sees when they’re stuck, and teaches to them.
Specialist Teachers, Not Generalists
Every subject is taught by a subject specialist with at least 5 years of classroom experience, most have 10+. Not one generalist covering everything.
Live Teaching, Always Recorded
Real classes at set times with real teachers. Every lesson is recorded, so nothing is lost to illness, travel or a bad day.
Practice That Fits the Child
Homework and revision run through Synapse, which tracks each skill and focuses practice on what your child actually needs.
A Teacher on WhatsApp
A real person who knows your child, reachable directly, not a ticket system. Replies within one working day.
Built on 15 Years of Learning Science · School Since 2024
Since 2011 our methods were developed and used in private schools and colleges in London, UK, and the Academy opened after that foundation existed.
Our Foundations
Key Areas of Work
The eight pillars that support our approach to learning.
Neuroscience
Understanding the brain and how it learns.
Genetics
Exploring the genetic foundations of human development and individual differences.
Learning Science
Applying scientific knowledge to improve learning.
Memory & Attention
Understanding the processes that support learning and recall.
Executive Function
Developing planning, organisation and self-regulation skills.
Neurogenetics Academy
Specialist education informed by neuroscience, genetics and learning science.
Online Private School
Structured online education from KS1 through GCSE/IGCSE and A-Level.
Small Group Classes
Specialist-led small-group learning with focused teaching and individual attention.