MyTutor offers free and discounted private tutoring
This summer, leading online tutoring platform MyTutor will be offering free and discounted private tuition during the holidays to help teens fill in learning gaps developed since the pandemic, get the hang of exam technique and put themselves in the best position for the next academic year.
Brits have developed a far more international approach to private tutoring, akin to Asian and a growing American culture who consider private education to be a mandatory element of both pre and high school education. The BBC has cited a forecast which says that the global private tuition industry is booming and will be worth $227bn by 2022, primarily fuelled by this growth in Asia. Indeed, Japan currently offers ‘jukus’ (cram schools) which have been operating since the 1970s where parents send their 2-3 year old kids to start learning before they enter formal education. In fact, Japan was somewhat of a trendsetter in private education spending $10.9 billion on tutoring in 1991 when it was not as popular in Western culture.
MyTutor will be hosting a huge programme of short courses across July and August for groups of up to 6 students in curriculum-focused lessons taught by some of their most experienced tutors from top UK universities. The courses are designed to engage students and help them enjoy learn gin again by including quizzes, games and back-and-forth conversations between the tutor and the students. The students will be able to keep the recordings of the sessions so that they can return to them for revision ahead of autumn term exams and beyond. These courses will cost just £10 per hour which is much less than the average cost of tuition (usually around £30/hour).
In addition to this, MyTutor will also be offering free large group tutorials over the summer, covering topics such as UCAS applications and careers advice. Teens will be able to drop-in to these to top-up their summer whenever suits them. Parents can secure early access for their teen by signing up on the waiting list here: https://mtw.typeform.com/to/K3Qj8FTg
Where it was previously seen as a premium luxury, personalised education is now considered a critical resource, instrumental in keeping children on track through a period of significant disruption. It has been revealed in nationally representative research from MyTutor that almost half of the nation used to think that tutoring was unnecessary but now since the pandemic have found it is very valuable, with 44% agreeing that they will continue to invest in online tutoring post-pandemic. Furthermore, almost a third of the country agree that pre-pandemic they would never have publicly discussed using online tutoring as they worried it might make their child appear less intelligent, but now they no longer feel this is the case. This is in stark contrast to previous national data commissioned by MyTutor pre-pandemic, which revealed that one third of parents who hired a tutor to help their child with their school work kept it a secret, with one in four confessing that if directly asked about it, they would rather lie than admit to doing so.
