Thousands of students are hiring private tutors to help them through their degrees courses. Universities are considering private tuition’s impact on student numbers, with extra tuition thought to reduce dropout rates and help students with resits, and consequently, universities are beginning to partner with tuition providers to help ensure and maintain high standards.
Tuition companies are filling a void left by universities that provide too few tutorials; with students being charged thousands of pounds in fees and feeling under immense pressure to do well, dropout and failure rates have risen across degree courses. Richard Evans, founder of a newly-launched undergraduate tutoring company, said an average of £1,200 was spend on private tutoring, and that the help can be life-changing; with demand from parents decreasing, students are realising that getting a 2:1 instead of a 2:2 is worth paying for – research shows that is worth more than £130,000 extra income over a lifetime.