What services do you offer?

After School Tutoring

We offer private, “after school” tuition in all subjects for children aged 5-18 who are based in London, the UK, or around the world. In such cases, we organise tutors to help children who are struggling with anything from basic homework to breaking down and re-teaching entire subjects. Some of our pupils have learning difficulties and need help from our experienced SEN tutors. Some might already be high-flyers at school and need an extra push, e.g. training them for Oxbridge or studying for an extra A Level. For families of younger children, we can also put together bespoke tutoring and interview-prep plans for the 7+, 11+, or 13+ entrance exams. In all of these cases, tutoring sessions typically take place once or twice a week, usually after school or on the weekends, at the pupils home, or online. We can also arrange intensive one-to-one tutoring during half term and school holidays.

International

Over the years, as our “fewer tutors, more hours'' approach has become more widely-known, and we’ve attracted interest from the press and won one or two awards (see below), we’ve seen a rise in requests from families living around the world who require the services of a Minerva tutor to come out and live with them. Residential placements like this can last from a week to a year, or even longer - and every placement is different. We manage everything from our head office in London and always ensure our tutor on the ground has the support of our Education Support Managers so they can continue to provide first-rate educations no matter where they are in the world! 

Homeschooling

Minerva’s homeschooling department is a story all on its own. It’s hard to imagine now but five years ago there were only a handful of organisations in the UK that were offering private 1-2-1 homeschooling solutions. Today, our Head of Homeschooling Scott runs one of the most capable and switched-on departments in the country. It’s growth has in part been down to the fact we chose long ago to start working with career-focused tutors, resulting in Minerva gradually becoming the destination of choice for families looking for security and stability when educating their children at home. With Minerva, your tutor is committed to the entire homeschooling period, which can often be a number of years. While every homeschooling scenario is different, our work broadly includes organising timetables, recruiting and instructing tutors, running mock exams, assessing predicted grades, arranging outings to museums and galleries, enrolling pupils at our partner exam centres, and so much more. It’s a full blown service - we can completely replace school if that’s what's required - and even to this day, we still get comments from new parents saying things like ‘I didn’t even know something like this was available’, which makes it all the more worthwhile.

Our Approach

We’re a company of natural, enthusiastic workers. In the office, we operate with the same values that we encourage in our pupils - meet challenges with a smile and work hard to get the required results. We’re not a ‘school’ and we don’t act like one. We put tons of energy and personality into what we do - loving the days on the phone to parents just as much as recruiting new tutors and dishing out plentiful supplies of croissants at our monthly tutor breakfasts! We believe strongly that tutoring should be both exam-focused and holistic and it’s our aim to lift every child into a place of intellectual independence and empowerment - with the ultimate view that greater academic success means greater choice later in life. In terms of the bigger picture, it was one of our founding wishes to see a world where as many children as possible can benefit from a strong educational foundation, setting them on the pathway to success and happiness. We’ve got some way to go, but so far, signs are good. We’ve been called ‘the Innocent drinks of the Tutoring world' by the Good Schools Guide and have been recognised with many industry awards and nominations, as well as making regular appearances in the country’s top newspapers, which you can read about here.

Online Schooling

In November 2020, we launched Minerva’s Virtual Academy, a unique 100% online independent school for pupils aged 12-18. “MVA” (as it’s already known) embodies everything we have learnt about homeschooling and like it’s sister company approaches the challenge of running a school with some fresh ideas… If you’d like to find out more, please head directly to their website.