By Sean Hirons

£180,000 a year. That’s how much one family is offering a tutor to get their one-year-old to get into Eton; that’s a higher salary than the Prime Minister’s.

While this is an extreme case, the high expense of private tutoring will come as no surprise to many parents.

One in five children now spend more than 100 hours a year with a tutor outside school, with the average tutor charging £37.50 an hour.

This industry has grown predominantly due to shortfalls in the education system. Teacher shortages are getting worse, more children are dropping out and moving to homeschooling, and some children are leaving private schools due to VAT increases, which could lead to swelling numbers in the state system as a result.

As the industry grows, more despairing parents are being taken advantage of. Tutoring........

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