Benefits of Tutoring
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Eleven-year-olds wake up to compulsory spelling and grammar test
Pupils in England will be required to spell ‘separate’ and ‘necessary’ and quizzed on punctuation in controversial new exam. Hundreds of thousands of 11-year-olds in England will sit a spelling and grammar test for the first time on Tuesday. Ministers argue the test will help to dramatically improve literacy standards, but teaching unions warn it could have the opposite effect....
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Gifted in maths: six ways to keep your high achievers engaged
Maths education adviser Steph King suggests some activities for key stage 2 students who are high achievers in maths In my role as a mathematics education adviser for a local authority I am frequently asked to provide training for schools focused on the more able mathematicians. In too many cases these pupils leave key stage 1 above or well above...
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Tutors International Places Students in 10 of Top 15 Universities with the Wealthiest Alumni
Leading private tuition agency excels in placing students in top universities worldwide. UK-based provider of full-time private tutors, Tutors International, today announced that they have successfully placed students in 10 of the top 15 universities for the wealthiest alumni, as reported by research firm Wealth-X. Wealth-X compiled a list of the global universities with the largest number of living alumni...
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Monday, April 22nd, 2013
International Education Options for Expats and Relocating Employees
Families who need to relocate due to work demands are often faced with a dilemma when it comes to educating their children; how can you ease the transition to a new culture, a new language, a new school, without damaging their education and future prospects? There are several options available and deciding which is best for your family is influenced...
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Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Whose Responsibility is it to Carry Out Background Checks on Private Tutors?
Tutors International publish article outlining the background checks that should be carried out on private tutors, and who should carry out those checks. Leading global tutoring agency, Tutors International, today published an article outlining the typical background checks that should be conducted on private home schooling candidates as a matter of course. Many families place local classified ads to recruit...
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Sunday, April 21st, 2013
What Background Checks Are Needed on Private Tutors?
Advice to parents on the most important security checks they or their private tutoring agency need to make when hiring a private tutor. Full-time private tuition can ensure your child receives the best education possible, and many UHNW families are taking this approach to fit in with travel, security concerns or international relocation. However, hiring a private tutor and carrying...
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Monday, April 8th, 2013
Should You Let Your Child Choose Their Private Tutor? Tutors International Says It Should Always be Family Decision
Tutoring agency, Tutors International, published an article today that looks at who should be involved in the recruitment process for a private tutor, and what they should look for in the ideal candidate. Nearly all homeschool tutoring candidates will look excellent on paper, with exemplary qualifications and vast experience, so sifting through the list needs to invoke other criteria. Adam...
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Friday, April 5th, 2013
How to Find The Right Private Tutor
Once you have decided that hiring a full-time private tutor is the way forward to educate your child, you need to determine how to conduct the recruitment process. A reputable private tutoring agency is best placed to understand what you need and what to look for in a tutor, but here are some guidelines to finding the right private tutor...
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Why Tutor-Proof Exams Don’t Exist
Private tutoring agency, Tutors International, reacted to recent attempts to create a ‘tutor-proof’ exam by claiming that no test can be resistant to the skills that a good private tutor provides to students. Tutors International, one of the world’s leading tuition agencies, who provide full-time private tutors to UHNWIs, announced today that contrary to attempts to develop an 11-Plus exam...
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Monday, February 18th, 2013
“Full-Time Private Tutors Should Do More Than Help Kids With Their Homework” say Tutors International
Tutors International responded to a NYTimes article that reported that private tutors are frequently asked to assist the family with other tasks by claiming that families should make more use of their full-time tutor. In a recent article published in the New York Times, one home tutor reports on his duties: “I was also [my student’s] driver and his chaperone...
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Monday, January 21st, 2013
Is the UK Failing to Take the Export of Knowledge Seriously?
Private tutoring agency, Tutors International, reported today that they are concerned about the export of knowledge as a valuable asset “For Britain to compete the with the rest of the world, we need to improve the academic standards of our graduates,” commented Adam Caller, founder of Tutors International, a leading provider of high calibre private tutors around the world. “The...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013
5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Child’s Private Education
Private education: Tutors International have published guidance for private school parents on how to keep informed on their child’s progress at school and ensure they don’t slip behind. A recent enquiry to Tutors International from a private school pupil herself, highlighted to the agency, who place elite private tutors with families around the world, a lack of support for struggling...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
The Big Con: Parental pressure on private tutors to cheat for their students
It’s no wonder that some private tutors give in to temptation and complete their students’ homework for them. Even I did it once, and in the process learned valuable lessons about dealing with parental pressure. I read an article recently about ‘corrupt’ private tutors: former paragons of educational virtue who swiftly succumb to avarice and deception, and then abandon their...
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
‘All Private Tutoring Agencies are Not Made the Same’, argues Adam Caller
Most tutoring agencies are not delivering the bespoke recruitment service they promise, according to Tutors International. Bespoke recruitment ensures the best placement for tutor and client, not a database-driven ‘best-match’ approach. Tutors International, one of the world’s foremost home tutor placement companies, today reported that client families are being ‘misled’ by some tuition agencies into believing that ‘it doesn’t matter...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Tutors International Announce Increase in Pupils’ Call for Real-World Scenarios in Private Tutoring
Private tuition agency, Tutors International, report an increase in enquiries for broader education home-schooling amid CBI and UK students’ calls for more practical skills to be taught in schools that emulate real-world scenarios. Tutors International, one of the world’s leading private home-school tutor agencies, today announced its support of a report recently released from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI),...
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