This is the Savile Row end of things – tailored, elegant, cut to your measure from the best materials. If you can afford it, it will be a perfect, hard-wearing and an excellent fit.
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Overview
We have met with Bonas MacFarlane Tuition’s staff. In addition, 30 clients and 34 tutors completed an online survey (sent to 338 clients and 172 tutors), with at least eight of these respondents also interviewed briefly by phone.
- Type of tutoring offered
- In-person
- Online
- Home schooling
- UK residentials
- Overseas residentials
- UK areas covered in person
- London
- Home Counties
Who are they?
BM, now based in Battersea (with parking and with quiet rooms for assessments), is the upper crust of the tutoring industry, blended, kneaded and done to a crisp according to the precise educational recipe for your privileged progeny.
Founded back
What do they offer?
Definitely a company you would want on your side if yours is not a straightforward, ‘Please, daddy, may I have a little help with probability?’ need, although routine, uncomplicated tutor requests have always formed the bulk of their work. BM are
- Revision courses
- 11 Plus
- Workshops and other courses
- Camp Bonas, range of talks, workshops and seminars
- Education levels
- Primary
- KS3
- 7 Plus
- 8 Plus
- 11 Plus
- 13 Plus
- Common Entrance
- GCSE
- A Level
- IB
- Uni Application
- Oxbridge
- Uni Tuition
- EAL
- Subjects available include
- English
- Maths
- Sciences
- Computing
- Humanities
- Languages
- Other subjects
- Chess
- Oxbridge Admissions Test
- Ielts
- SEN
- Support for students with special educational needs
The finer details
Tutors – a core team of 175, working with around 320 families a year - all come by recommendation. ‘We purposefully don’t do any marketing,’ says Harry. ‘Our tutors are so good that we don’t need to.’
Parents certainly sing their praises: ‘All the
- Tutor Association
- Member of The Tutors’ Association
- Charitable/pro bono work
- Scholarships, primary partnership, university training programmes, United World Schools, Foundation K
Costs and conditions
‘Reassuringly expensive,’ as one parent put it. We spoke to the whole range – from those who said ‘I’m probably not the right person to ask as resources are not an issue for me’ to those who found the cost ‘quite a shock initially although I’ve since
- Cost
- £86-180/hour
£192 registration fee
What the tutor company says
‘We pride ourselves on taking an integrated approach and fostering long-term relationships with the families we work with. Our university results, for example, reflect our success with students receiving offers from Oxbridge, Harvard, Yale and
The last word
This is the Savile Row end of things – tailored, elegant, cut to your measure from the best materials. If you can afford it, it will be a perfect, hard-wearing and an excellent fit.
