Blue Tutors
Why Blue Tutors?
What makes us special?
When we began Blue Tutors over 15 years ago we were actually called Cambridge Tutors and quickly created a sister Company, Oxford Tutors. It was great to be working with so many amazing tutors but we also knew other tutors who met our high standards and wanted to work with us. Blue Tutors was born, "blue" being a nod to Oxford and Cambridge's university colours, and now we felt happy to recruit non-Oxbridge, but still amazing, tutors.
The Blue Tutors team is a real mix of experienced tutors with a track record of success and young enthusiastic tutors just starting out on their tutoring journey. There is a perfect tutor for everyone and some people benefit from a tutor close to their age with whom they can relate, and others prefer a tutor who feels senior to them.
When it comes to our tutors we are unashmedly elitest; we want to work with the best academics and we make sure they care about continually working on their tutoring skill. However, when it comes to our students we want to help everyone. Our students are from varied backgrounds, each has different goals, and we try our hardest for all of them.
We make everything simple and straightforward. From the moment you get in touch until you achieve what you want; whether that's exam success or a better understanding of a subject.
Blue Tutors was started in 2004 by Pete Edwards after graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge. Like many recent graduates, Pete felt unsure of which career path to follow. He decided to take some time out and tutor students in and around London whilst thinking about his long-term future. Pete quickly realised that he had a passion for teaching, and wanted to create a new tuition agency which focused on high quality tuition.
Our dream was to have the most amazing tutor available for each of our students. We wanted to raise the bar for tutors everywhere and make sure that no one ever settled for a tutor who was just ok or who was simply convenient. This was always difficult because of the logistics of finding a face to face tutor for each of our students. However, the dramatic increase in online tutoring, particularly since 2020, has made our dream a reality.
We've grown to more than 9000 tutors and online tuition means that many of our tutors are now based outside of the UK. Our management team remains small, though, and we take pride making sure that we continue to provide the best possible service to every student we can help.
We began life as Cambridge Tutors UK. Pete and his friend, Cammil, met at university and realised that parents and students were incredibly impressed by a tutor from Cambridge University, and that encouraging more Cambridge tutors to join them was such a positive and worthwhile pursuit. The world class supervision system at Cambridge prepares tutors so well to teach one to one; the best academics in the world receiving the best tuition in the world.
Very quickly we built an unparalleled tutor base, and after a year we found that lots of tutors from Oxford University wanted to join us. What a lovely problem to have. All of our marketing was covered with our exclusive Cambridge University recruitment policy, so the solution seemed obvious...
...Oxford Tutors UK was born. This meant doubling the potential tutors we could recruit, maintaining our high standards. The similarities between Cambridge and Oxford Universities are obvious to everyone, with the supervision and tutorial systems being psynonyms for the most amazing teaching environment at any uniervsity in the world.
Everything was great. We had become very proud of our group of tutors and it was a lovely feeling to have built something from scratch which had created such a positive difference for so many students around the country. The admin involved to run two companies was annoying, but we may have continued if there wasn't a crowd of brilliant tutors contacting us who hadn't studied at Oxford University or Cambridge University. Blue Tutors was such a comfortable fit when we thought of the name and what it mean to us; the best. And we were finally able to recruit the best, now accepting tutors based on their ability to meet the standrds we have demanded from the very beginning.