This friendly, professional and can-do tutor company has a monopoly on the Manchester area and it’s easy to see why. ‘Yes, it’s a business, but I feel Jo has a genuine understanding and always finds the right tutor,’ summed up one parent. Several told us they’d used Choice for multiple subjects and more than one, often all, their children – ‘Why would I go anywhere else?’ Great value too.
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Overview
We have met with Choice Home Tutoring’s staff. In addition, 23 clients and 32 tutors completed an online survey (sent to 162 clients and 206 tutors), with at least eight of these respondents also interviewed briefly by phone.
- Type of tutoring offered
- In-person
- Online
- Home schooling
- UK areas covered in person
- The North
Who are they?
When Jo Murphy (BA in human movement studies from Leeds, PGCE from Loughborough) gave up teaching to be a full-time mum to her three children, she caught wind of local parent grumbles about a dearth of decent tutors. So she decided to try to solve
What do they offer?
This has long been the go-to agency for hourly tuition for families in Manchester, where the bulk of their work is English, maths and science tutoring for GCSEs. ‘Maths has particularly ballooned recently,’ reports Jo. They also cover all primary
- Revision courses
- 11 Plus
- GCSE
- A Level
- Workshops and other courses
- Primary age workshops (all years) Entrance exam workshops GCSE revision in English, maths and science
- 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
- SEN
- Support for students with special educational needs
The finer details
‘We prefer graduates and qualified teachers but it’s not essential – some of our best tutors are in their final years of their degree or medical training,’ says Jo, who believes these younger tutors can make excellent role models, excel at mentoring
- Tutor Association
- Member of The Tutors’ Association
- Charitable/pro bono work
- None
Costs and conditions
Excellent value for money – so much so that we wonder why more families down south haven’t caught on. No registration fee. Primary tuition starts at £34 per hour (£30 if you bulk buy); secondary tuition is from £36 per hour; A level tuition from £40
- Cost
- £34-50/hour
£0 registration fee
What the tutor company says
‘Most of our business comes from recommendations, reviews, word of mouth and returning customers. Tutors come to us via our existing tutors – they’ve heard about how we work, and how well we look after tutors, and want to join us.’
The last word
This friendly, professional and can-do tutor company has a monopoly on the Manchester area and it’s easy to see why. ‘Yes, it’s a business, but I feel Jo has a genuine understanding and always finds the right tutor,’ summed up one parent. Several
