Hunting down the best tutors

Word-of-mouth is the most effective and popular way to source good tutors especially as generally, the best tutors do not work for an agency – they don’t need to.

A good tutor, especially in English, maths or science, is a local treasure. Their name guarded jealously by parents who, are often less than keen for other people’s children to have the advantages they are buying for their own.

Tutor companies

As individual as your child? 

Finding tutors is no easy task. A number of tutor companies claim they can guide you to the ideal tutor but how do you choose between them?  Some tutorial companies are run from sitting rooms and work with only 20–30 tutors. Some have extensive offices and may have 2,000 tutors on their books.

Some are trying not to expand, relish long-term, close relationships with clients and tutors and acquire both solely by personal recommendation. Others are busily trying to meet a voracious demand and are wildly recruiting in all directions.

Tutorial Colleges and 'Crammers'

Tutorial Colleges are educational establishments with a difference. 

Their appeal depends on offering a tailor-made, (mostly) fifth and sixth form education in a similar atmosphere to that found at university, with the onus being on limited supervision and personal independence.

And on high fees.

The Good Schools Guide recommends?

We have quizzed and/or visited a number of tutor agencies about whom we have received considerable feedback and talked to their clients and their tutors. We have divided the tutorial companies into three sections plus a postscript. The reviews are available on-line to logged in subscribers and in The Good Schools Guide book.

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