Cardinal Newman Sixth Form College

Cardinal Newman Sixth Form College is a Catholic college located close to centre of Preston in Lancashire. Over the last few years the college has been expanding steadily and current numbers stand at around 1500 full time students. We currently have around 330 students taking AS and A level Psychology under the guidance of five psychology teachers. Many of our students tell us that they thoroughly enjoy the challenge and novelty of psychology and a significant number choose to continue with the subject at degree level. Please visit our website if you would like to find out more about the college: www.cardinalnewman.ac.uk

Alistair Burr: Psychology Teacher

Alistair Burr has been a teacher of AS and A level Psychology for the last eight years and he has extensive teaching experience of both the AQA and OCR specifications. In addition, Alistair has worked as an A Level Psychology examiner and he as also taught the subject at GCSE, Open College and degree level. He has been teaching at Cardinal Newman for the last two years.

Alistair is particularly interested in innovative ways of teaching psychology and he has been working hard to integrate ICT into the delivery of the subject for the last few years. About PsYonline, Alistair says:

“… I am very pleased to be involved with the project and I am convinced that it will be highly beneficial to a great many students.”