Today we are continuing the series about our tutors with a short interview from one of our valued Physics, Engineering  and Maths tutors – Alexandra. What do you ( or did you) study at university? Electrical Engineering with Renewable Energy at the University of Edinburgh Why did you choose to study science? “It is [...]

  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, [...]

  During each private tutorial you have your tutor’s full attention and ideally you want to use this time to your best advantage. Below we listed 5 ways of making sure you make the most of each minute with your home tutor: 1. Think ahead. Have a clear idea of what you want to achieve [...]

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 [...]

In this short series we will feature some of our tutors, to give our prospective tutees a better idea of the kind of tutors we work with at Edinburgh Science Tutors. They are mostly graduates and young researchers based in Edinburgh with a passion for education and science communication. Today we present a short interview with Lynsey, [...]