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This is from The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n

When Robert Grabiner tried to find his daughter a tutor to help with her A levels, he was amazed at the cost. He decided to solve the price problem virtually, writes Richard Garner.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a kind of Eureka moment for Robert Grabiner after 30 years of working in the City. The 55-year-old father of two was anxiously trawling through the internet trying to find a tutor to help his daughter, Hannah, with her A levels after he had been made redundant \u2013 but they all seemed so pricey. Between \u00a330 and \u00a340 an hour seemed to be the norm.<\/p>\n

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Why not, he thought, start up a tuition service myself? And that’s precisely what he has done \u2013 offering a cut-price service of \u00a316 an hour for those who enlist for his mytutor.co.uk<\/a> service. Using online software that creates a virtual classroom, tutors talk to their students via web cam, share a whiteboard for notes and all sessions can be recorded to watch again.<\/p>\n

Grabiner is now part of a worldwide trend that has seen online tuition and courses mushroom over the past couple of years, with students signing on for everything from degree to refresher courses.<\/p>\n

The recipe is simple: GCSE<\/a> and A-level<\/a> students are tutored by their peers \u2013 students at university who may only be three or four years older than the teenagers using his service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read the full story on The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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