{"id":1583,"date":"2010-09-10T22:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T22:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2010-09-10T22:33:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T22:33:50","slug":"awful-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2010\/09\/awful-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Awful Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was once contacted by an a man who said he had a student for me. I met him at a central London hotel and he gave me the details of the student. We had a few sessions, and when it came for me to be paid the guy I met in the hotel gave me only a quarter of the fee I was expecting.
\nIt also turned out that I was not the first tutor who had been to see that student. The previous tutor, sent by the same man, was only a first year degree student, and expected to teach 2nd year degree maths.
\nThe name of this agency? Imperial tutors, who claim that over half their tutors have doctorates from Oxford and Cambridge. Needless to say, it is all a pack of lies.
\nThis was 3 years ago now. I don’t take students from anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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