An established high-end tutor agency with top drawer tutors available for most educational needs. Expect a hand holding mentality and customer service that is second to none.
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Overview
We have met with Simply Learning Tuition’s staff. In addition, 24 clients and 28 tutors completed an online survey (sent to 193 clients and 114 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?
Founder and MD Nathaniel McCullagh failed (Nathaniel prefers ‘underperformed’) his A levels first time round but sailed through them the second time (and went on to a viva for a first in archaeology from Durham University) because he ‘finally
What do they offer?
Tutoring covers all academic levels from early years (not below age 4, though, of which we approve) to university, and sometimes beyond. Bread and butter work is GCSE, A level and IB, along with 11-plus and 13-plus. Tutors also available for
- 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
SLT works with nearly 200 families a year and has 350 tutors on its books. All tutors are self-employed because ‘we want to work with highly experienced specialists rather than generalists and simply wouldn’t be able to give them full-time employment
- Tutor Association
- Member of The Tutors’ Association
- Charitable/pro bono work
- Founder of Tutor the Nation
Costs and conditions
Tutor rates range from £95 to £200 (average is £115), of which SLT takes between 20-30 per cent for commission. Occasionally, there are travel costs on top – at the tutor’s discretion. T&Cs are standard – and some flexibility about waiving
- Cost
- £95-200/hour
£0 registration fee
What the tutor company says
‘What makes Simply Learning Tuition genuinely unique among our peers is the level of care we take to find the right tutor for every child. We represent several hundred high calibre tutors and we’re known among private tutor circles as being hard to
The last word
An established high-end tutor agency with top drawer tutors available for most educational needs. Expect a hand holding mentality and customer service that is second to none.
