Low pay and strict policies limit tutor flexibility - Tutor National Learning Group Employee Review

The lowest pay in the business. No pay if a student misses a session, as the company puts students first. Great in principle, but when it's £14 an hour for GCSE tutoring and £16 an hour for A level tutoring, and you've booked out an evening, it's highly annoying when students don't attend and you simply don't get paid. I'm paid £23 at one company and £40 at another for GCSE tutoring, and the £23 rate company pays if students don't attend. In comparison, tutoring for the NLG feels like working at the McDonalds of the tutoring world. They pay the absolute bare minimum, and expect you to be completing admin tasks, emailing, scheduling sessions etc, all unpaid, but ASAP. Richard Ludlow and the team in general have gone even harder down the line of students taking precedence even if it makes the tutoring experience worse. It is now the standard that tutors give availability, and the admin team assign students who can then choose which times to book. This takes away one of the only remaining perks to working here of being able to pick and choose exactly when you work. If you said you were available from 15:00-20:00 on any weekday, and you had one student book in for 3pm, another for 7pm, it would be a whole afternoon booked, with only... £20 earned (40 minute GCSE + 40 minute A level) hopefully the team will understand when the tutors massively limit their availability and make it harder for students to choose such times.