Popular among British and Chinese families with children in UK boarding schools – now with an on-line only tutoring offering which is better suited, by the company’s own admission, to secondary school age. The company is small enough to be personal, but big enough to have a good range of tutors, though for more niche subjects or SEN we’d suggest looking elsewhere. Solid, traditional, friendly.
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Overview
We have met with Inspiring Tutors’ staff. In addition, 25 clients and 20 tutors completed an online survey (sent to 70 clients and 63 tutors), with at least eight of these respondents also interviewed briefly by phone.
- Type of tutoring offered
- Online
- UK areas covered in person
- London
- Home Counties
Who are they?
Surprisingly grounded, given that their website is packed with awe-inspiring Oxbridge photos and highly polished children in smart school blazers (subtext: ‘we are as high calibre as they come’). Friendly and down-to-earth co-founder and CEO, Siyu
What do they offer?
Although the minimum age for students is 6, this company’s bread and butter comes mainly from older students – 30 per cent is A level tuition, the rest GCSEs. They also support university applications.
Subjects are wide-ranging – all the usual
- Education levels
- Primary
- KS3
- 7 Plus
- 8 Plus
- 11 Plus
- 13 Plus
- Common Entrance
- GCSE
- A Level
- IB
- Uni Application
- Oxbridge
- Uni Tuition
- Subjects available include
- English
- Maths
- Sciences
- Computing
- Humanities
The finer details
‘We don’t do a massive amount of marketing,’ says Sherry – instead, growth has been organic and steady, just the way she likes it. Indeed, she wants the business to keep expanding though not to the extent that the ‘personal touch’ referred to by so
- Tutor Association
- Member of The Tutors’ Association
- Charitable/pro bono work
- Free online Oxbridge admissions programme, currently taken up by around 100 students, plus free personal statement and university admissions workshops in several schools
Costs and conditions
No introductory or registration fee and the first lesson – although paid for – is considered a trial lesson to identify problems and check the chemistry between tutor and tutee works. ‘Only if you’re happy with it do you continue.’ Hourly fees start
- Cost
- £78-105/hour
£0 registration fee
What the tutor company says
‘Our tutors are carefully selected to match the needs of each individual and support both the parents and the students in all aspects – from achieving academic success to thinking creatively, finding independent solutions and boosting motivation and
The last word
Popular among British and Chinese families with children in UK boarding schools – now with an on-line only tutoring offering which is better suited, by the company’s own admission, to secondary school age. The company is small enough to be personal,
