"Children will learn more from someone they like and hence want to please."

Experience has shown that relatively young tutors achieve the best results. Children will learn more from someone they like and hence want to please. If your child and our tutor become good friends, the academic work falls into place.

Since many potentially superb educators choose more lucrative careers, classrooms sadly miss out on a vast array of talent. We recruit some of these people who would love to teach and have the ability, but cannot envisage life as a conventional teacher.

Every year, we receive over a thousand applications from potential tutors. This formidable pile is whittled down to around one hundred hopefuls, all of whom are intensively interviewed. After a three-stage interview and screening process, those who are accepted undergo a rigorous training programme before they are sent out to meet their first student. In addition, detailed academic and personal references are obtained and held at THE TUTORS GROUP as well as the appropriate criminal record checks.

We currently employ around six hundred highly-trained and trusted tutors on our database. All of our tutors have access to our extensive library of past exam papers, syllabuses and teaching aids. However, if they feel uncertain about the needs of a particular child or the standard necessary to obtain the highest marks in a certain exam, they are encouraged to book a meeting with us to discuss techniques and syllabus.

Getting it right is very important to us. After each tutorial, our tutors file lesson diaries with us so that we have an up-to-date record of each child’s progress. These are copied to you once a month – with the invoice!

The majority of our tutors have taken their first degree and are involved with a professional qualification such as law or medicine. This means that they’ve been passing examinations twice a year for a decade and are extremely adept at study skills and examination technique. They understand the horrors of examinations because they’re still taking them.

Not only are all of our tutors academically qualified to teach the required subjects, they also understand the crucial role of confidence in determining success.