6th February 2012 9:00
By Blue Tutors
The founder of a tuition agency has claimed that school education has declined dramatically in the last 20 years. Reported on openPR.com, Adam Caller, from Tutors International, was a school teacher until 1996, but left the profession as he became disenchanted with it, and is keen to promote the value of private tuition as a way for parents to ensure that their children have a better and more rounded education.
Caller claims that, when he was teaching, he was using notes from his year 10 studies (the first year of GCSE) to teach an A Level class, and that the difficulty of qualifications has been eroded even more since then. He does not want to appear to be criticising students, and is keen to point out that they are still doing fantastically well by achieving great A Level results, and entering top universities, but the education graduates leave university with is far less well-rounded than it used to be.
Now responsible for recruiting tutors, Adam says that he has had to add to his criteria when deciding on who the best tutors are. The tutors must have been to a top university, and that used to be enough in itself, but not anymore. Caller’s recruits must now also display a more cultural and well rounded education. In his pursuit to ensure that any student tutored through his agency receives a greater breadth of knowledge, a promise made to parents of prospective students, Adam looks for tutors who have received similar teaching themselves.