The Tutor Blog

Pleased to say that my ‘how to’ article on becoming a private tutor has now been published in the Times Educational Supplement. It’s featured in their Masterclass series, under the title ‘A partnership where lessons take flight’. Although the article is aimed mainly at school teachers thinking about making the move into private tutoring, it contains plenty of good advice for all types of potential tutors. You can read the article here.

The article draws on the wealth of information in our e-book Tutoring: The Complete Guide, which is available for free download from The Tutor Pages website.

HM Revenue and Customs has set up a new website designed to educate teenagers about the UK tax system. It’s called Tax Matters and features quizzes and games to help understand how it all works.

We’ve had a look at it too, because understanding self-employed tax is something private tutors need to get their head around. HMRC’s new site seems like a fun but useful introduction to the subject, and it’s also good to see a more intuitive and visual approach to a topic that has traditionally been so badly presented.

In our guidance on tax for self-employed tutors, we’ve also seen the merit of the visual approach: we’re pretty proud of our diagram (above) which shows for the first time in a clear way how the self-employed income tax cycle works. Just download our free Tutoring Guide to see how it works.