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Keystone Tutors was featured today in the Times warning parents about poor advice and bad practice amongst educational consultants.

Keystone's warning regarding unscrupulous placement agents was reported on Yahoo news.

The global reputations of leading independent schools are being tarnished by unscrupulous education advisors who are charging overseas parents tens of thousands of pounds for poor advice that fails to secure places for their children, a leading tutoring firm has warned.

We were delighted to be nominated as a finalist in the Education Investor awards in the Tutoring category.

It is the lot of every Latin teacher to answer, each and every year, the same tedious question from the class wise guy: “What’s the point of learning a dead language like Latin?”

“We will soon be nothing but transparent heaps of jelly to each other.”

So wrote the furious New York Times in 1877 at the introduction by Alexander Graham Bell of his new invention: the telephone. New technology is often met by such scepticism – and rightly so. Online education is just such a technology, and it is not surprising to see some parents and teachers respond to it with uncertainty. As the eminent Cambridge Classics professor Mary Beard asserted last week, is not education “about eyeball to eyeball contact and interaction”?

We were so pleased to receive such a positive review in the Good Schools Guide. The review described, 'a very professional operation... We were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of Keystone's fan club, both parents and tutors.'

Keystone was featured in today's Daily Mail on private tutoring. In the article Keystone's Founder and Director, Will Orr-Ewing described Keystone's approach to professionalising private tutoring. "I dislike the word 'supertutor' and prefer the term 'professional tutor'", he says, "What I want two years from now is for us to have a team that’s more like a small magic circle law firm — 30 or 40 high-end tutors who are committed and will be doing it for 20 years."

Keystone Founder and Director, Will Orr-Ewing, appeared on the Today Programme this morning with John Humphrys. During the programme Will discussed computerised testing and its role in selecting students for top UK independent schools.

Keystone was mentioned in today's Guardian in a piece covering the rise of private tuition. Our unique approach of hiring full-time professional tutors was described in the article. In the piece Keystone's Founder and Director, Will Orr-Ewing, commented, "The disposition of a teacher and the seriousness with which they go about it is far more impactful than their hobbies or what they may want to do with their life."

We are delighted to announce that we have joined the recently formed Tutors' Association. We strongly support the aims behind the association and look forward to supporting its efforts to professionalise the UK tutoring industry.

Keystone was mentioned in today's Sunday Times article that touched upon maintaining standards in private tutoring. Keystone's Founder and Director, Will Orr-Ewing, commented, “We are trying to make tutoring into another profession, like law or accounting. Parents want more these days, they want the same five-star service from their tutoring company as they get when they call their law firm."

The Education Investor have published an article on Keystone's efforts to professionalise the UK tutoring industry.

Keystone Founder and Director Will Orr-Ewing appeared this evening on BBC 2's Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman. Will commented on prospective changes to A-Levels.

Keystone Founder and Director wrote an article in today's Evening Standard that compared the professionalism of tutoring companies in the United States with the relative "amateurism" of the London tutoring market. Will touched upon Keystone's efforts to replicate much of this best practice and commented that "London students of all backgrounds deserve a more professionalised body of tutors, one that upholds tutoring as a lifetime calling."

Keystone was featured in today's Independent on the increase in private tutoring.

Keystone's pioneering work in online tutoring was featured in today's Telegraph. Keystone's Founder and Director commented, "The truth is, though, that children feel it's far less of a chore to sit down in front of a computer than it is to sit down in front of a pile of books. And if anything, an online teaching session is more structured than a face-to-face situation."

Keystone was featured in today's article in the Evening Standard on the rise of tutoring in London. Keystone's Founder and Director commented, "Keystone takes children whose needs are not being met in the classroom: most of our families, contrary to assumptions, have been referred to us by schools."