For some children getting a private tutor is a chance of catching up with school work after absence due to poor health. Some parents choose to hire a tutor in order to give their children the best chance of receiving the grades required to fulfil a university offer or an entrance to a dream school. It is [...]

The most important question when hiring a tutor via an agency The best way of finding a tutor is by the word of mouth i.e. from a personal recommendation. Hiring a tutor via an agency always carries some risk as you cannot be sure to what extent the advertisement matches the actual quality of tuition. [...]

Qualities of a good tutor As we already established finding a good tutor requires either having good contacts and recommendations or sieving through countless advertisements on the Intnet in a hope that you will find someone whose description actually matches the quality of tuition. Let’s assume that you managed to find a tutoring agency or a [...]

  Introducing the new series This week we will post a series of short articles about our thoughts on what makes a great tutor, what you can expect from a tutoring agency and how ( or whether) we meet those expectations – we shall leave the judgement to you. Please feel free to publish your comments below, [...]