24th December 2012 9:00
By Blue Tutors
Private tutoring has become increasingly popular amongst parents hoping to help their children improve their exam grades. However, in recent year, the tuition boom has also taken off amongst adults, who are increasingly considering tuition as an option for themselves as well as their children.
Foreign languages are the most popular requests for adult learners wishing to broaden their horizons, along with art and music, where adults wish to pursue new creative endeavours later in life. Other popular requests are English and Maths tuition, for Adult learners who struggled when at school, and who want to improve their skills now at a pace which suits them.
Conservative minister Jeremy Hunt, whose wife is Chinese, famously hired a private tutor to help him learn Mandarin. Under House of Commons rules, MPs are permitted to have private tuition paid for by Westminster, and several MPs have taken advantage of this over the past few years.