Hello Everyone
I'm a director of a global tutor agency - Anysubject Ltd. I run the company along with my wife and we have been operating now for nearly 15 years. We offer tuition in over 200 subjects from early-learning to beyond university plus language and voice coaching to corporate clients and music lessons for all ages. To do this we have acquired a database of thousands of tutors.
Before running the agency, I was a tutor myself (and I still do teach Search Engine Optimisation and AdSense placement courses). My subjects were maths and geography - stemming from my Civil Engineering degree.
The purpose of this lens is not to just plug our agency, it is also to include matters relating to private education and useful links. I hope you will find the site helpful and make contributions too.
Thank you.
Anysubject Tutor Agency
Private tuition and tutoring
- Anysubject
- More information about our agency, how we started, what we offer, fees and reams of information about private tuition. We always need new tutors - you'll find information about that too.
- Children's charities
- A list of the most popular children's charities - let me know if you have one you would like included.
- General Reference - Hundreds of useful guides
- Hundreds of guides on a multitude of subjects - new ones being added daily. If you have useful information to impart and it is family friendly and about 300 to 700 words long, let me know.
- Educational Blog
- Blog about all matters educational - especially individual tuition. Many articles of general educational interest.
Engaging A Private Tutor
How to be safe and sure
Here are ten tips to be secure and to make sure you are getting what you are paying for.
1. When you first speak to the tutor, tell them about the student and what you want to achieve. Ask the tutor how they propose to do this. A good tutor will have lots of ideas, a bad one will want you to come up with all the ideas or not have the confidence to decide themselves.
2. Tell the tutor that you will want to be nearby while the lesson is taking place (eg an adjacent room with the door open). No decent tutor would have it differently.
3. The tutor has to gain the trust of your child so don't cause the child to feel threatened - make the 'being around' as commonplace and natural
4. Tuition should take place in a quiet room, free of distractions with both student and tutor comfortably seated in highback chairs at a big table.
5. Someone who speaks plainly about how much and when they get paid is driven by the commercial aspect of the work and probably perfectly safe. A tutor who wants to tell you about their altruistic drive to spread knowledge is definitely one to avoid.
6. If the tutor is going to you, get their full name, address and phone number. This needs to be verified and a nice way to do that without being obvious is to offer to post directions or call the tutor back to confirm a proposed lesson time.
7. If the tutor is coming to you and you have not got them via a reputable agency, ask them for a Utility Bill (gas, electric etc) with their name and address on and/or something containing their National Insurance or Social Security number.
8. If the lesson is at your home offer tea and coffee (let the student and tutor settle down first). This will give you a legitimate reason and be well-received too. If you want a fail-safe (more applicable for older students), have a pre-arranged code - "No, I don't want a drink, Mum" means "This is awful" or "A cup of tea please." means "Brilliant - this tutor's good!".
9. Go into the lesson room10 minutes before the end of the lesson with a cheque or cash for the correct sum. Use the remaining time to debrief the tutor and to obtain practice work to reinforce the tuition in between lessons. Don't waste this time! A good tutor has other clients and they deserve the full lesson time too.
10. Ask your child to tell you about the lesson afterwards - . what they liked most, liked least and what they thought of the tutor. Do not to put words in their mouths. A good way of reinforcing their learning is to a
1. When you first speak to the tutor, tell them about the student and what you want to achieve. Ask the tutor how they propose to do this. A good tutor will have lots of ideas, a bad one will want you to come up with all the ideas or not have the confidence to decide themselves.
2. Tell the tutor that you will want to be nearby while the lesson is taking place (eg an adjacent room with the door open). No decent tutor would have it differently.
3. The tutor has to gain the trust of your child so don't cause the child to feel threatened - make the 'being around' as commonplace and natural
4. Tuition should take place in a quiet room, free of distractions with both student and tutor comfortably seated in highback chairs at a big table.
5. Someone who speaks plainly about how much and when they get paid is driven by the commercial aspect of the work and probably perfectly safe. A tutor who wants to tell you about their altruistic drive to spread knowledge is definitely one to avoid.
6. If the tutor is going to you, get their full name, address and phone number. This needs to be verified and a nice way to do that without being obvious is to offer to post directions or call the tutor back to confirm a proposed lesson time.
7. If the tutor is coming to you and you have not got them via a reputable agency, ask them for a Utility Bill (gas, electric etc) with their name and address on and/or something containing their National Insurance or Social Security number.
8. If the lesson is at your home offer tea and coffee (let the student and tutor settle down first). This will give you a legitimate reason and be well-received too. If you want a fail-safe (more applicable for older students), have a pre-arranged code - "No, I don't want a drink, Mum" means "This is awful" or "A cup of tea please." means "Brilliant - this tutor's good!".
9. Go into the lesson room10 minutes before the end of the lesson with a cheque or cash for the correct sum. Use the remaining time to debrief the tutor and to obtain practice work to reinforce the tuition in between lessons. Don't waste this time! A good tutor has other clients and they deserve the full lesson time too.
10. Ask your child to tell you about the lesson afterwards - . what they liked most, liked least and what they thought of the tutor. Do not to put words in their mouths. A good way of reinforcing their learning is to a
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