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A second tuition centre in Canterbury?

8/12/2015

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I see a new tuition centre has opened, in Watling Street inside the city walls.
It is called Bright Young Things (a reference to Evelyn Waugh's satire on young people in the 1920's) - a memorable, if dated phrase, but from which, perhaps the demeaning connotations have now rubbed away. 

What it offers, and how it proposes to go about it, remain for me to see - next week, hopefully, when I have an appointment with its manager, Emma Heath. Meanwhile there is general information on its website of operations in established Bright Young Things centres, in Rochester and St Albans and elsewhere.  

Does Canterbury need a second tuition centre? It certainly doubles consumer choice - it cannot be bad for the local prospective client to be able to compare models of tuition and prices and terms - assuming (as I do assume) that BYT's approach is different from Tuition Canterbury's.

What surprises me a little is that the owners of BYT did not opt to establish themselves in a nearby area which does not host a tuition centre at all, such as, Thanet or Folkestone or Herne Bay - whence students often travel here. It is a question I shall put to Emma - and report back on in a subsequent blog.          

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Emma Heath link
22/1/2016 05:00:35 am

Hi Peter,

It was good to meet you last month.

Fascinating to read your blog posts, and thanks for giving us a shout-out. I don't know if a follow-up is coming, but I thought I could help you out with this one.

I confess, the reason for choosing Canterbury was me! An Oxbridge graduate who tutored for a while before becoming a London solicitor, when I decided to stop commuting in order to spend more time in my lovely home of Canterbury (where my husband is a GP), I contacted Bright Young Things - who I'd read great things about - to ask whether I could help tutor. Well, after some discussion, they decided to let me open a tuition centre here.

Of course, we're not the only ones! A quick glance online shows that there are four or five people offering small-group tuition in Canterbury these days (in addition to the plethora of private tutors). It's great, as you say, that there is this choice. Not only does it allow parents to compare costs, it also provides a parent with more options as to how their child is taught. For example, we espouse more "traditional" teacher-led approaches, using books and worksheets and discussing topics in groups, whereas others prefer to rely on computer-based learning. The wonderful thing about small-group learning is that it both encourages interaction and debate, and brings costs down, so that more children have access to additional tuition.

So we are delighted to have opened our new tuition centre in Canterbury, building on our other centres in Tunbridge Wells and Rochester. And who knows? Perhaps our next stop will be Folkestone or Herne Bay!

All best,
Emma

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