Very often, parents and students want committed tutors only. However, as much as we would like to recommend committed tutors , we cannot guarantee that all our tutors will be 100% committed due to various difficulties and reasons. From our past experience, below are some of the factors that may affect the suitability and commitment of the tutors :

  • A Tutor’s salary may not be the most important of all, but it is significant.

    Tutors who take up a low paying assignment may not commit for a long period. A tuition rate that is $10-15 less than the market rate may be acceptable to your tutor. However, if a parent pays about $50 less than the market rate, the tutor will most likely not commit for long. He or she may even feel unmotivated towards teaching as well.Teaching is a well-respected profession, and MOE teachers nowadays are well paid by the ministry. So our advice to parents is that: give the tutors out there the rewards they deserve. The well-known saying “Good stuff comes at a price” applies in this case as well.

  • Location

    A tutor may settle for a lower tuition fee and may be more committed if his student’s place is near his house, since the tutor is able to cut down on travelling time and thus save on transportation fees.

  • Difficult Students

    Usually, tutors want to commit their time to teach a student who is very keen to learn and improve. Our tutors may not be able to help a student who doesn’t wish to help himself. It takes two hands to clap. So before a parent changes tutor, he should first find out whether his child is keen to learn from the tutor. In certain cases, it may not be the tutor’s fault if there is no academic improvement.

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