The Daily Telegraph 22/08/2011 page 9
Notes:
-$6 billion on private tutoring
-50% goes to qualify tutors,50% goes to private part-time tutors, total number up to 76,000
- No accreditation required to ensure quality
- Tuition fee vary from $20-$200, add up other expenses annual value about $3 billion. total business $5.5-6 billion
_ Survey shows 60% parents pay more than $51 per child per week. on-on-one tuition the most popular 42.5%
-65% parents want tax deduction as a priority
Summary:
Parents are spending up to $6 billion a year on private tutoring. 50% money goes to qualify tutors while 50% money goes to private part-time tutors. Total tutor number add up to 76,000. Anyone can be a tutor because no accreditation required to ensure quality. Tuition fees are vary from $20 to $200 per hour. The annual spend on official tutors wages is more than $827 million. Total added value for official tuition industry is about $3 billion and $5.5-$6 billion for the whole business. Survey shows 60% parents pay more than $51 per child per week to tutors. One-to-one tuition was the most popular method and prefer by 42.5% of parents. About 65% parents want tax deduction for tutoring as a priority.
Personal reflections:
Although my child do not use private tuition service, most of my child's friends go to tuition school at weekends. As I told by some parents, they need to spend money on private tutors because the entrance tests of OC and selective schools are far beyond normal standard of public school's education. The children need to learn 2 year advance in order to get a good mark on these tests. If the government can standardise these kind of tests. The level of these tests is just equal to standard of normal public school. Parents do not need to spend so much money on private tutors in order to push their children to learn in advance.
