In this installment of ‘David Investigates…’ I’ll be looking at what it’s really like to tutor abroad. Live-in and international tutoring is on the rise, whether it’s a weekend away in the country, or a year living with a family in South Africa. Unsurprisingly, this offers a completely different challenge to tutors, and is incomparable to regular face-to-face tutoring and … Read More
What Is a Tutor Really For?
In a Times2 article this week, ‘Super-tutor’ Mark Maclaine blew the lid on the best and worst of the tutoring industry, from an eight year old boy with 15 different tutors to an academic breakthrough with a teenage girl struggling at school after her mother’s death. The sheer breadth of experiences Maclaine offered in his many years as a tutor (totalling 20,000 … Read More
