Brand new website http://www.studylance.com offers a cheaper and more immediate alternative to private tutoring for recession-hit parents and students.
• The Sutton Trust report finds that 43% of children at state schools in London have received private tuition. *
• “Financial downturn has been great for tutors” – Sue Feldman, The Good Schools Guide
• With tuition costing between £20 and £50 an hour, StudyLance offers a cheaper alternative with personalised help available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
StudyLance went live in July and already has a committed userbase. Students typically offer to pay a small fee (usually less than £5), the question is then made available to StudyLance tutors who submit an answer. The student sees a preview of the answer and can then choose to accept and release payment. All questions are vetted, so that students’ asking for full essays or other forms of plagiarism never appear on the site.
The financial downturn has been a great time for StudyLance tutors, parents not wanting to spend hourly rates for expensive home tutors are realising that StudyLance.com can offer targeted help whenever their child needs it. Sarah Lloyd hopes to send her children to a top London school and realised that online tutoring was the right option to help prepare her kids, “we were shelling out almost £50 an hour for an unemployed teacher to come coach our six year old in maths. After a month, we pulled the plug”.
For more information, contact Tom Walker
E: Tom.walker@studylance.com
http://www.studylance.com
*www.suttontrust.com/
