Tanith Carey quotes Sutton Trust research in a Daily Telegraph article on using private tutors.

It was just before 11am and my home was already as far from being an oasis of calm as I could wish for on a Sunday morning. With two minutes to go before the weekly visit of the tutor, it was a race against time to calm down my seven-year-old daughter. This was because Lily’s protests of “I hate her. I never want to see her again” were so loud, they would surely be heard by Caroline as she approached the front door below.

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A generation ago, private tuition in the UK was the domain of a small number of middle-class families helping their children struggle to keep up or pass key exams. In the intervening years, that little bit of extra help has become a must-have. Nowadays for many youngsters, the end-of-the-day school bell is only the start of the second shift.

A quarter of schoolchildren now get coaching – up from 18 per cent five years ago, according to research from education charity The Sutton Trust. From traditional one-on-one sessions to group classes and online courses, the market in this country is worth around £6 billion, with families spending an average of £2,758 a year.

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