Number of parents looking for summer tutors more than doubles

Bidvine.com has noticed an 118 per cent increase in the number of parents looking for summer tutors since last July.

Tutors on the online local services site have revealed that the recent change in marking criteria and the number of parents looking at grammar schools has fuelled the increase.

The demand for summer tutors has risen by 118 per cent since July last year and has discovered that parents’ ‘fear of failure’ for their children is the main reason, as more parents plan to put children in for the grammar school test in September. The recent changes to the UK’s marking criteria are also causing parents concern.

The site has more than 2000 tutors listed on the site, and asked them to reveal why the number of bids for their services has increased so much..
 
The online local services marketplace used their internal data to compare the number of requests made for tutors this year compared to this time last year and found that requests have more than doubled from 1,248 to 2,721.
 
Tutors have said that the recent marking of primary school papers has fuelled the rise, after children missed out on marks because their punctuation marks were misshapen. Another reason given by them for the sharp increase is the new GCSE numbered marking model, which came into practice this year.
 
More than half (52%) of tutors said that parents worry that their children aren’t getting the right level of education. Two thirds (68%) said they currently tutor state educated children and three quarters said that despite children hitting their targets at school, parents are still looking for summer holiday tutors.