We were saddened to see a recent BBC article highlighting how the state education system is failing some poor pupils ("Invisible poor children let down by schools", BBC News 20/06/13). This is something we're particularly aware of in the private tuition sphere, where we see families with a broad s...
Read more ›The Centre for Market Reform of Education (the CMRE), a subsidiary of the Institute of Economic Affairs, is considering regulating the tuition industry. They propose the creation of the 'TTA' (The Tutor Association), holding membership of which would imply a degree of quality, a 'stamp of approval...
Read more ›There have been two recent articles critiquing private tuition ("Warning from headteachers as parents dig deep to fund boom in private tutors" The Guardian 26/04/13 and "Tutoring for two-year-olds?" The Telegraph 03/05/13), both of which relied on Headteachers to pose their criticisms.
Some of th...
Read more ›First Tutors was recently featured in a Guardian article on private tuition for schools: it explored the growing trend of schools hiring private tutors to bolster the performance of disadvantaged pupils, using the Pupil Premium and other extracurricular budgets. In fact, the positive case study at t...
Read more ›"I am a parent first, and secondly a... (in my case 'tutor')"
Many parents say that, don't they?
But when it comes to having a child with dyslexia - the two roles have to become inextricably linked, not just for professionally trained teachers/tutors, like me,...
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