National Tutoring Awards
National Tutoring Awards
National Tutoring Awards 2024
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Important Dates for 2024
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2024 Categories and Criteria
This year we have introduced more categories to cater for the wide-range of membership that we represent, including a whole new section of awards for our Tuition Partners.
Awards for Tutors
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student (or one or more groups of students) in the last year.
– Demonstrate consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
Nominations should also demonstrate how their practice is/has been (any one or more of the following):
> Innovative.
> Especially appropriate for one or more particular students.
> Particularly effective (i.e. students made exceptional progress or achieved particularly challenging goals).
> Representative of a commitment to supporting disadvantaged students.
> Enabled/supported a tuition business to improve the way they work with all/many of its clients or tutors.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) in the last year.
– How appropriate resources, tools, techniques or strategies have been used to directly address the specific requirements of a student with special educational needs or disabilities.
– Consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
– Relevant qualifications and/or experience for providing SEND tuition.
Nominations should also demonstrate one or more of the following:
> The use of technology to assist students with SEND.
> How the tutor has utilised their experience, research or relevant training to improve their skills.
> Ways in which the tutor has made specific adaptations to their practice to accommodate students with SEND.
> Ways in which the tutor has collaborated with other organisations, agencies or local authorities in order to support the student(s) in question.
> How the tutor has supported the students’ families to enable them to support students outside of tutorials.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student (or group of students) at primary level (EYFS to Year 6, or between 4 and 11 years old) in the last year.
– How the tutor’s approach or practice is tailored to be relevant to students at primary level.
– Consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
Nominations should also demonstrate one or more of the following:
> A robust way of measuring or providing evidence for progress and/or attainment, suitable for primary-age students.
> Pioneering and/or especially innovative approaches and techniques used with primary-age students.
> How the tutor has supported primary-age students with their cognitive development, provided emotional support and/or supported their family/parent(s)/guardian(s).
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student (or group of students) at secondary level (Year 7 to Year 13 or between 11 and 18 years old) in the last year.
– How the tutor’s approach or practice is tailored to be relevant to students at secondary level.
– Consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
Nominations should also demonstrate one or more of the following:
> A robust way of measuring or providing evidence for progress and/or attainment, suitable for secondary-age students.
> Pioneering and/or especially innovative approaches and techniques used with secondary-age students.
> How the tutor has supported secondary-age students by motivating them, encouraging them to achieve appropriate goals and/or remain within education (especially if the student(s) were at risk of dropping out or faced particular challenges that the tutor helped to address).
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student (or group of students) at university or equivalent (undergraduate or postgraduate degree, certificate or diploma) in the last year.
– Consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
Nominations should also demonstrate one or more of the following:
> A robust way of measuring or providing evidence for progress and/or attainment, suitable for university-level students.
> Pioneering and/or especially innovative approaches and techniques used with university-level students.
> Exceptional subject knowledge or specialism in a given area or field.
> The ability to support students appropriately with interpreting, reviewing or carrying out cutting-edge research.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student (or group of students) who has been taught solely or mainly online over the past year.
Nominations should include details of how the tutor has made the best use of online resources or tools to deliver tuition most effectively.
– Consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
Nominations should also demonstrate one or more of the following:
> A robust way of using web-based resources, tools or technologies for measuring and providing evidence for progress and/or attainment.
> The effective use of online e-learning platforms and virtual classroom(s) to support students.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
Nominations should:
– Demonstrate an outstanding impact on at least one student who has been homeschooled for at least a significant part of the past year (i.e. 3 months or more).
– May or may not be for a student taught in a residential basis (i.e. where the tutor lives in or near the student’s home for a given period).
– Demonstrate consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
Nominations should also demonstrate how the tutor has supported the student(s) in one or more of the following ways:
> The requirements of the national curriculum.
> The selection of appropriate courses of study.
> The sourcing of appropriate resources.
> Putting in place an appropriate course of teaching/tuition and assessment.
> Registration for public examinations or components of them (e.g. GCSEs/A Levels/coursework).
> Supporting applications for further education, higher education or employment.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Awards for Tuition Businesses
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only; the total annual revenue for the business in its last full financial year must be less than £1 million (or equivalent, in any other currency).
Nominations should demonstrate (at least 4 of the following):
– A commitment to student achievement.
– A commitment to supporting tutors.
– Dedication, effort and care in connecting the right tutors and clients.
– Outstanding professional conduct with both clients and tutors.
– Collaboration across the tuition sector.
– A commitment to safeguarding.
– How they support disadvantaged students, whether through schools (e.g. NTP), pro-bono programmes or similar.
Whether the corporate operates as an ’employment business’ or an ’employment agency’ will not, in and of itself, influence the judging process but all applicants are expected to fully comply with the law in order to be eligible.
You will be asked to provide references and evidence of annual revenue (in confidence) when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only; the total annual revenue for the business in its last full financial year must be more than £1 million (or equivalent, in any other currency).
Nominations should demonstrate (at least 4 of the following):
– A commitment to student achievement.
– A commitment to supporting tutors.
– Dedication, effort and care in connecting the right tutors and clients.
– Outstanding professional conduct with both clients and tutors.
– Collaboration across the tuition sector.
– A commitment to safeguarding.
– How they support disadvantaged students, whether through schools (e.g. NTP), pro-bono programmes or similar.
Whether the corporate operates as an ’employment business’ or an ’employment agency’ will not, in and of itself, influence the judging process but all applicants are expected to fully comply with the law in order to be eligible.
You will be asked to provide references and evidence of annual revenue (in confidence) when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to organisations that operate partly or solely as an online school.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– How an appropriate curriculum is designed and delivered at scale online.
– How staff are appropriately supported to teach online.
– How students are provided with appropriate resources and additional support (where needed).
– How pastoral care is provided effectively.
– How students are recruited and onboarded so that they understand what to expect and integrate well into the online school community.
– How effective extra-curricular provision is provided including clubs, trips, in-person meetings, sport and similar.
– Where appropriate, how the online school develops relevant connections with other organisations of any kind.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– A commitment to providing high-quality tuition.
– Appropriate systems and processes for ensuring consistency and quality at scale.
– A robust and credible approach to evaluating the impact of tuition.
– Appropriate means and capability of assessing students at various stages within tuition programmes to evaluate student progress.
– Appropriate means of evaluating the effectiveness of tuition on a qualitative basis (e.g. via student, parent and/or school surveys or feedback forms).
Whether the corporate operates as an ’employment business’ or an ’employment agency’ will not, in and of itself, influence the judging process but all applicants are expected to fully comply with the law in order to be eligible.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– Outstanding customer service when dealing with consumer clients (e.g. parents or other relatives/guardians purchasing tuition for a child).
– The ability to be responsive and flexible to consumer clients, ensuring that their needs are met and, where possible, exceeded.
This may include any of the following:
> Effective and efficient processes for dealing with parents/guardians.
> How clients are kept well informed of the process of finding and putting in place good quality tuition.
> Responding to client queries in a timely manner.
> Any combination of systems, processes, student assessments or other advisory/consulting services that support the delivery of an outstanding educational service.
> Managing to resolve client issues or deal with more complex or unusual requests.
> An efficient and highly informative reporting process for clients (possibly offering some kind of reporting or information in real-time via an online portal, or vie regular reporting) especially where such a reporting process has little or no impact on tutor workload.
> Evidence of the outcomes of tuition.
Tuition companies will not be assessed on the price of the tuition/other services offered other than a consideration of whether the price is proportionate to the level of service offered.
Whether the corporate operates as an ’employment business’ or an ’employment agency’ will not, in and of itself, influence the judging process but all applicants are expected to fully comply with the law in order to be eligible.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– At least one school/tuition business collaboration that has created a real impact on students (especially disadvantaged students).
Nominations may include a reference to any of the following:
> An efficient process for setting up a collaboration with a school (e.g. particularly quick or with minimal effort on the part of the school).
> The ability to offer a service efficiently and either at scale or with the capability to scale whilst maintaining quality (if offering SEND tuition, the expected level of scale that is or could be achieved would not be expected to exceed the demand for such tuition across the country).
> The ability to deliver services that meet the needs of schools and with an appropriate degree of flexibility.
> Supporting the school to select appropriate students for tuition.
> Delivering tuition on a regular basis, with minimal disruption (due to foreseeable issues).
> An appropriate system or process for providing progress and/or attainment data to schools and for demonstrating the efficacy of tuition.
> An understanding of the needs of schools.
> The ability to respond quickly to queries from the school.
> The ability to provide very good value for money (e.g. pro bono, subsidised or at a reduced cost).
> A reporting system/process that meets the needs of the school.
Whether the corporate operates as an ’employment business’ or an ’employment agency’ will not, in and of itself, influence the judging process but all applicants are expected to fully comply with the law in order to be eligible.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Any employee or contractor working for a tuition business is eligible.
Nominations should demonstrate:
– The individual’s commitment to supporting clients and students.
– A meaningful contribution to the organisation they work for, above and beyond the minimum expected.
– Effective teamwork and collaboration.
– Clear and effective communication.
– The ability to deal calmly and effectively with issues, problems or opportunities that present themselves.
Nominations may include a reference to any of the following:
> Times when the team member has gone above and beyond what would normally be expected of them in order to support clients and/or tutors.
> An outline of how the individual has effectively dealt with an issue, problem or opportunity (where applicable).
> Any ways in which the individual has meaningfully improved systems and processes at the tuition business.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Awards for Tuition Partners
Award Criteria:
Open to partners and suppliers to the tuition sector, providing any product or service (e.g. professional services, brokerage, resources, technology, physical equipment etc.).
Nominations should include or demonstrate:
– How the organisation has provided exceptional products and/or services to at least three tuition companies.
– How the organisation ensures that it offers high quality products or services that are directly relevant to the tuition sector.
– Any ways in which the organisation’s products and/or services have been adapted/designed to suit the needs of tutors and/or tuition businesses specifically.
– How the organisation offers value for money to tutors or tuition businesses (whether this is through the provision of additional benefits, flexibility on pricing where appropriate or providing exceptional value for money).
– How the organisation supports its tutor/tuition business customers to ensure they can make good use of the products and/or services offered.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to partners and suppliers to the tuition sector offering any educational resource (e.g. physical or digital resources such as content, assessment materials, books/revision guides or similar publications etc).
Nominations should include or demonstrate:
– The accuracy and academic rigour of the content.
– The relevance of the content or assessment materials for the course(s) for which they are intended.
– The suitability for the target age range of student (including accessibility and how easily students can engage with the resources).
– The suitability of the resource for tutors or tuition businesses in their specific context.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to partners and suppliers to the tuition sector offering any professional service (e.g. insurance, legal services, tax advice, accountancy, business consultancy or similar).
Nominations should include or demonstrate:
– The provider’s relevant experience, networks and/or team members (where applicable) that enables it to provide high-quality professional services.
– Any ways in which the provider’s services are adapted to the needs and circumstances of tutors and/or tuition companies.
– Any details of ways in which the provider have supported tutors or tuition companies effectively to allow them to reduce their own risks, grow their business and/or capitalise on new opportunities.
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Award Criteria:
Open to partners and suppliers to the tuition sector offering any technology tool (e.g. administrative software, learning platforms, virtual classrooms or applications of any kind).
Nominations should include or demonstrate:
– How the technology tool is relevant to the tuition sector and enables tutors and/or tuition businesses to address a real business or educational need.
– How the provider offers effective and relevant customer support to tutors and/or tuition companies.
– Ways in which the technology has been designed to offer innovative features to offer specific benefits for tutors and/or tuition companies.
– How the provider supports tutors and/or tuition companies to adhere to best practices in both data protection and cybersecurity (including compliance with GDPR and mitigating the risks of data-loss).
You will be asked to provide references when you apply.
Frequently Asked Questions
The character limit for your submission is 5000 characters.
It is free to enter the National Tutoring Awards.
Applications are open to anyone.
You do not need to be a member of The Tutors’ Association to apply.
Any successful nominations will need to show proof of their current DBS and provide their DBS update service number too.
Yes, you can enter as many different categories as you wish.
However, applications for each category should be relevant to the category requirements and not just one application form copied and pasted several times.
You will need to submit a separate application form per award that you wish to enter.
Yes.
Tuition Partners can apply for any relevant awards where they meet the criteria.
Yes, you can apply for a tuition business award so long as you meet the criteria, regardless of whichever business model you operate under or, if you operate as a hybrid business.
However, it is important to ensure that you comply fully with the relevant regulations and legislation. Applicants that can not demonstrate this (e.g. if asked by the judges) will not be eligible to win the award.
There is no restriction on how long you must have been tutoring or operating for, however, you must ensure that you can provide relevant evidence that you meet the criteria of the award category you are applying for.
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