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Finding a private tutor in England
Many teachers give private tuition, some spend a good number of hours every evening doing this. Most fail to declare it on their tax returns, treating it as tax-free income. Private tuition benefits almost every student. A student's confidence increases as their knowledge expands with the one to one contact with a tutor. You can find a cheap tutor, but in this life you get what you pay for! If you manage to find a tutor who will work for the same rates as someone you pay to cut the grass in the summer, you will get exactly that level of skill and expertise. Good tutors know their value and are intelligent enough to ask for it. You should expect to pay a tutor the same as you would a plumber, an electrician or a car mechanic. Tutors do come cheaper than solicitors and lawyers though. A good tutor will have a full diary and be able to find tutees without even advertising. My diary was full and I was asking for £30 an hour six years ago for A-level Chemistry tuition in Wigan. I found most of my students by word of mouth recommendations. In 2008 I would be looking for £40 per hour for A-level and £30 per hour for GCSE students, working at the student's home.
·How can you find a good tutor? You should ask your friends. They may give you names to ring or ones to avoid. Ring a local school and tell the office receptionist that you are looking for a tutor for your son or daughter. Messages like this are usually passed on along the grapevine until they reach the right person. Never advertise in newspapers or postcard adverts. These make you sound desperate and you will be ripped off. Avoid university students, they may be cheap, but they will only be using their own A-level or GCSE notes and they rarely have the high level communication skills needed. Check out any tutor recommended to you. Ask where he or she teaches and ring the school or college. Ask for references from parents of past students. Avoid tuition agencies. They take a large percentage of the payment you make, typically more than a quarter. A good tutor does not have to rely on an agency to find students. Agency rates are usually lower than the market rate to employ a tutor directly, but you will rarely find a top quality tutor. Until you know and trust the tutor you need to take certain common sense precautions. These will protect you and your child from abuse of trust. A good tutor will welcome these precautions because it protects him or her from unfounded allegations of misconduct which could lead to him or her losing a teaching position. Some tutors will ask you to stay around, especially for the first few weeks. Start looking for tuition early. If you leave it until the Easter before GCSE or A-level it is far too late because it takes time to build up a trusting relationship between student and tutor. Without this trust the student is not likely to accept all that the tutor is saying, especially if it contradicts what school teachers in school are saying.
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