Graduate Tutor Blog

Interesting article in today’s NYT.

Zeke M. Vanderhoek, the founder of the Equity Project, believes that top quality teachers are the key to high performing schools.  His assumption  is that more than curriculum, labs, technology, etc, it is the quality of teachers that make for quality learning.

We agree!   High quality tutors = High quality learning.

And that is why we staff our ranks with high quality tutors and focus on students and professionals who really value learning.  Maintaining quality is not a ‘low cost’ play and that is why Mr. Vanderhoek pays $125k per annum salaries.  So if you wonder why our rates are not cheaper, it does cost money to attract the quality tutors we provide.

Thanks for learning with us!

Great news!  Graduate Tutor is hiring!  We are looking for:

• MBA/Campus representatives:  If you are a student in a campus with a Business school or an MBA program and are interested in a very flexible part time job, please do contact us.
• High quality MBA Tutors: We are always looking for top quality tutors to join us but are now actively looking for finance tutors capable of tutoring case studies taught at the MBA programs/Bschools, Statistics tutors, Operations research tutors.

More opportunities are listed here.

The WSJ reports on more colleges provideing students financial aid.  Colleges must also help weak students with tutoring support where possible.  Some of our students have had to discountinue their tutoring programs despite needing help badly due to financial hardships.  Some universities hear the pain and are sponsoring or subsidizing tutoring costs for week students. 

We would love to have universities sponsor all or some of the tutoring costs as there there is not much we can do on our end with regard to pricing.  If you have any ideas, suggestions or leads please do let us know.

The current economic situation is causing new developments.  This WSJ article talks about students & parents buying internships and raises a good question: Does this give wealthy students an unfair advantage?  Yes it does!

We extend that question and ask:  Is this fair? Who is responsible to maintain fairness here?  Clearly this is not fair to those deserving students who can’t afford to pay for an internship!

Students need all the help they can get and we at Graduatetutor.com try as hard as possible to provide help by making learning easier.  Our service is expensive because we provide high quality tutoring.  We require  qualified/experienced people to teach advanced business topics in finance, accounting and statistics and these people are expensive. Our cost does not allow everybody who could benefit from our service to access it.  Those who can afford it (the wealthy) use it and benefit immensely.   The wealthy are clearly at an advantage!

Who is responsible for maintaining fairness and equality? We try to reduce costs and make tutoring more affordable.  We stay online, buy used text books, minimize overheads and more to reduce operational costs. Our tutors however have rents/mortgages to pay, children to send to school and costs to pay!

We believe it is the universities responsibility to maintain fairness.  We belive that universities must do its best to provide its students with interships? We are working with select universities to provide tutoring support for the deserving students.  Universities identify needy students (academic & financial) to sponsor a few hours of tutoring.  This way if a student really needs the tutoring support and can’t financially afford it, he/she can avail it through the university.

College students need all the help they can get. Do let us know if you can get more universities into our program to make tutoring more affordable for more deserving students.