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Tuition Fees
Learn a lesson - don't count the cost
Tuition fees vary according to the subject, level, tutor and number of
students receiving tutoring at the same time. Since the rates are set by the
individual tutors, it is impossible to say that the higher the tuition fees,
the better the tutor. Some tutors have an inflated opinion of their own
worth and charge ridiculously high rates, others start from the point of
view that the world owes them a living and will calculate how much a week
they want to earn and divide that by the number of hours they wish to work
to calculate their tuition fees.
Some of the best tutors will deliberately reduce their tuition fees in the
knowledge that many of the most needy of students can ill-afford the cost of
the lessons. Tutoring for them is a combination of a paid hobby and
community service. If you are lucky enough to find one of these tutors, you
are lucky. They are dedicated people who get a real kick out of seeing their
students pass their exams. They take the view that they are getting paid for
doing something which they enjoy and that is sufficient in itself.
The latest twist in the tuition fees story is the advent of the 'nil' charge
tutor. With the crippling over-regulation in the UK (and elsewhere) that has
caused the overheads of many long-established and highly respectable tuition
agencies to rocket, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of
online tuition agencies - largely from Asia. These agencies often employ
tutors and teachers whose first language is not English and who have no
knowledge of the curriculum they are supposed to be tutoring. Not only that,
the agencies force the tutors to set their tuition fees at zero (initially)
in order to attract students. From the student's point of view, such tutors
frequently cause confusion with their poor English and limited knowledge and
they can end up undermining the knowledge the student already has.
It would be poetic and fitting to say 'you get what you pay for' with
tuition fees but it is not so. Paying more does not get you a better tutor
and paying nothing is not necessarily a bargain - particularly if you have
to pay another tutor to go back over ground that was understood. If you read
through the pages of this site, you will see how to select a tutor, how to
get the best out of your lessons and what constitutes a reasonable cost for
the tuition fees.
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