It’s difficult to find a niche in the saturated world of tutoring, but these guys have nailed it by providing young, dynamic Oxbridge-educated tutors with a passion for teaching who can deliver support in a multitude of ways. Exceptionally well run too. ‘We will use them again, and again, and again,’ said one happy customer.
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Overview
We have met with Renewed Learning staff. In addition, 27 clients and 23 tutors completed an online survey (sent to 180 clients and 115 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
Who are they?
Set up in 2019 after founding tutors Benedict Yorston (MPhysPhil in physics and philosophy, Oxford) and Ed Newall (BA in PPE, Oxford) kept hearing their Oxbridge-educated tutor friends grumble about the tutor agencies they worked for. It gave the two
What do they offer?
You name it, their Oxbridge-educated tutors teach it – ‘from maths and English to Arabic and economics’. All levels and ages too, although refreshingly they don’t tend to go lower than age 8 (except for eg EAL). ‘In fact, we stood up at Godstowe
- Revision courses
- 11 Plus
- GCSE
- A Level
- Workshops and other courses
- Public Speaking Skills, Entrepreneurship/Financial Literacy, Academic Enrichment
- 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
- From Arabic to Chess
- SEN
- Support for students with special educational needs
The finer details
The USP is that all tutors are Oxbridge educated. Average age 24. Around a third are undergraduates, a further third are doing their master’s or PhD and the last third have already graduated and are working as teachers, writers, musicians,
- Tutor Association
- Member of The Tutors’ Association
- Charitable/pro bono work
- Scholarships – free to subsidised lessons and academic support; work with charitable organisations (eg OX4 trust); deliver talks (eg Oxbridge Applications) at schools pro-bono.
Costs and conditions
A no-strings agency, with no registration fee, no contracts to sign and you can stop the tutoring anytime. Individual online tutoring is between £50 and £80 per hour, depending on the age of the student. In-person tutoring ranges from £64 to £100 per
- Cost
- £50-100/hour
£0 registration fee
What the tutor company says
‘In an increasingly impersonal industry, we pride ourselves on being the opposite. On both the parent and tutor side, we maintain very close relationships with everyone we work with. We’re incredibly proud of the long-term nature of many of these
The last word
It’s difficult to find a niche in the saturated world of tutoring, but these guys have nailed it by providing young, dynamic Oxbridge-educated tutors with a passion for teaching who can deliver support in a multitude of ways. Exceptionally well run
