We're very excited to announce that First Tutors is a finalist for the 2013 EducationInvestor Awards! Specifically, we've been nominated for the Supplementary Education Provider award.
EducationInvestor aims to give recognition to companies and organisations that invest in that most long-term and...
Read more ›I was trawling an educational forum a few nights ago, when one poster's comment struck me right between the eyes. It was something to the effect that schools - although they do a good job of teaching us times tables, the insides of plants and so on - teach us hardly anything about the "real world". ...
Read more ›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...
Read more ›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...
Read more ›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...
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