{"id":1899,"date":"2013-09-02T19:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T19:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2013-09-02T20:05:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:05:23","slug":"private-tutors-a-waste-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/09\/private-tutors-a-waste-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Tutors a Waste of Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn! How will we make a living?<br \/>\nAccording to a PhD study the effect of study on a students gcse grade is next to none existent. Even in maths, the subject in which tutors make the biggest difference, the effect is only to raise a student by one fifth of a gcse grade, meaning there is only a 20% chance of an individual course of tutoring not being wasted.<br \/>\nOf course, that study deals with tutors of varying quality, including unregulated tutors who tutor to earn a little tax free money. The government is talking of regulating the private tuition industry. This will probably push up the cost of a private tutor, but will also probably mean you can be more sure that the tutor you hire is qualified, experienced, checked and paying their taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn! How will we make a living? According to a PhD study the effect of study on a students gcse grade is next to none existent. Even in maths, the subject in which tutors make the biggest difference, the effect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/09\/private-tutors-a-waste-of-money\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}