Today, finding a home educator anywhere in the UK can be a challenge. In London however, it’s considered even more difficult to find a tutor who offers tuition services in the subject you’re looking for.
Private tuition in London is particularly competitive as many parents seek out their preferred educators months, sometimes years in advance. A tutor with a good reputation can find themselves booked from year to year through word of mouth alone. Often, when parents and students start searching for someone to help with their studies, they’re surprised to find that so many have already been booked up, it’s important, therefore, to do some research in advance and discover the most effective way of finding an educator in London.
So why the competition?
Well firstly, London has one of the largest concentrations of universities and higher education institutions in the world. It has 40 higher education institutions and has a student population of more than 400,000. Among the institutions in the city are some of the old and world-famous colleges that today make up the federal University.
Where can you find a private tutor in London?
Parents tend to find educators from a variety of different sources. Traditional newspaper advertising, local shop windows and of course word of mouth is a consistently effective means of finding a private tutor in the country’s capital. Today however, the trend for finding private educators tends to come from the internet. By using Google’s keyword tool, we get a good idea of how many people search for specific terms. Using the search term ‘private tutor London, Birmingham, Manchester etc’, Google’s keyword tool shows each terms monthly searches:
London – 3,600
Birmingham – 480
Manchester – 390
Leicester – 260
Leeds – 260
Bristol – 210
Liverpool – 170
How much do private tutors in London charge?
Depending on the subjects being tutored, the cost of private tuition in London varies. As a general rule, private tutors in London tend to charge slightly more than tutors in the rest of the UK. By researching various websites, we see that private tutors in city centre London tend to charge an average of £45 per hour, compared with the UK average of £25 per hour. Again, using Google’s keyword tool, we can see the following terms’ global monthly searches:
English – 2,400
Maths – 2,400
Spanish – 1,000
French – 880
Chemistry – 390
Science – 320
Physics – 260
Biology – 140
