Tutor Facts

Greene’s tutors are selected through a ten-stage application process.  Once we are happy that all these stages have been satisfactorily completed, tutors are then entered onto our register.

We look for a range of qualities in our final selection:

  • Experience of the tutorial method
  • Enthusiasm
  • Communication skills
  • Ability to understand and deal sympathetically with different learning processes
  • Ability to meet examination criteria

Statistics about Greene’s Tutors
Each year, we accept approximately 200 tutor applications, with the following results:

–  200 tutors apply to teach for us

–  65 % of applicants (or about 130 tutors) are placed on our ‘approved’ tutors’ list

–  93 different subjects are on the profiles of approved tutors

–  28 % of tutors have a first degree from overseas

–  69 % of tutors have a first degree from a British university

–  45 % of tutors have a first degree from Oxford or Cambridge

–  40 % of tutors are studying for a secondary degree or doctorate at Oxford

–  5 % of tutors offer distance learning only

–  85 % offer distance learning in addition to face-to-face tuition

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