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First Tutors partners with the Guardian Teacher Network

As part of this relationship, our community will have access to free resources (watch this space!), and will have opportunities to guest post on the GTN blog! So if you want to have your say on an educational topic close to your heart, now would be a good time to stand up! E-mail us at social@firs...

Private Tuition: the best way to help overlooked, underachieving kids?

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...

In the News: Regulation on the horizon?

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...

In the News: Headteachers weigh in

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...

Are you a school looking for tutors?

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...