3rd February 2014 9:00
By Blue Tutors
The post-Christmas rush for tutors has calmed down a little now. If you’re a tutor reading this then hopefully you’ve been able to take on as many students as you had hoped. There will be another spike in new students in late April/early May, but they will generally want lots of lessons, and only for a month or so, which means they’re unlikely to be as rewarding as students taken on now.
A few weeks ago I wrote about an assessment day I had arranged in Cambridge. It was out of term, and attracted very few prospective tutors, and I had assumed that a date arranged in term would be much more popular. However, I arranged such a date over two weeks ago, and so far it has attracted only 4 tutors. The reason this seems so weird is because about 5 times the number of tutors are signing up for assessments in Oxford. Normally I have 3 or 4 reasons to explain something like this, and try to work out which is the most likely, but I honestly have no clue about this.