State school parents set to benefit from low cost private tutoring

With the increasing cost of private tutoring, more and more parents are turning to online tutoring as a low cost, highly effective solution.

The development of online tutoring in the UK is set to provide a massive boon to the number of state school children getting private tutoring. Currently, the numbers are hampered due to the prohibitive, and rising, cost of one on one private tuition, with some tutors known to charge over £100/hour, with the need for extra classes is getting ever more pressing with the increased burdens on the state school system.

Online tutoring, which permits access to low cost labour anywhere in the world, is dedicated to changing that. Through the use of either qualified Indian teachers, or students from the top UK universities, one on one private tutoring can be delivered online for a cost that is a fraction of what is charged by the top private tutors in the UK, with prices for top level online tutoring getting as low as £10-15/hour.

At this price, parents can have French students from Cambridge teaching their child French one on one. It is this factor that will allow the penetration of private tutoring in the state school market to rise from around 4% today, to about 13% in 2012, according to a recent study.

This means a 30% annual growth rate is to be expected between now and 2012 in the state school market, and thus an unprecedented level of access to top class private tutoring, that could change the landscape of education in the UK forever.