National Tutoring Awards
National Tutoring Awards
National Tutoring Awards 2024
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Frequently Asked Questions
It is free to enter the National Tutoring Awards.
Whilst in 2022 you did have to be a member of TTA in order to enter the National Tutoring Awards, this year in 2023 we have removed this requirement. 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, affiliate members can apply for any relevant awards where they meet the criteria, in particular, Best Educational Resources for Tuition and Best Tuition Provider for Evaluating Impact.
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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2024 Awards Categories Criteria
Click on the dropdown arrow to view the award application criteria for each category.
Professional Tutor Awards
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
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Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student in the last year.
– Demonstrate consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
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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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
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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.)
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Nominations should also demonstrate one or more of the following:
> The use of technology to assist students with SEND.
> How the tutor has engaged with training and/or research 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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
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Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student at primary level (EYFS to Year 6) in the last year.
– How the tutor’s approach or practice is tailored to students at primary level.
– Consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
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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).
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
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Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student at secondary level (Year 7 to Year 13) in the last year.
– How the tutor’s approach or practice is tailored to students at secondary level.
– Consistently high standards of professionalism. (E.g. in their relations with tuition companies or clients.)
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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).
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
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Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student 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.)
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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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
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Nominations should demonstrate:
– An outstanding impact on at least one student 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.)
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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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to professional tutors only.
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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.)
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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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
From Friday 26th May, all shortlisted applications will be able to share the news with their networks in order to gain votes which will determine the winners of the People’s Choice Awards for both Professional Tutors and Tuition Businesses.
On Thursday 22nd June at 23:59PM the People’s Choice Awards voting will close.
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only.
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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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only.
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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).
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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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only.
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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.
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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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only.
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Nominations should demonstrate:
– At least one school/tuition business collaboration that has created a real impact on students (especially disadvantaged students).
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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.
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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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
Award Criteria:
Open to tuition businesses and affiliate suppliers only.
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Nominations should include or demonstrate:
– How they provide excellent quality educational resources (which may include technical tools, online classrooms, curriculum resources in digital or print form, textbooks, online learning platforms or assessment platforms) for tutors/tuition clients.
– An element of innovation in resource/tool/technology design.
– The incorporation of evidence to support the choices in how they have designed/implemented their resources and/or technology or incorporated tuition best practice.
– Attention to the specific needs of tutors/tuition companies (as opposed to a resource that is principally designed for a different context, such as for schools).
– Excellent quality content and/or materials.
– Details on how the resources or tools are aligned with the needs of a particular academic course, qualification or other process, or how they are suitable for use by their target audience.
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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.
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You have 5,000 characters to explain how you meet the awards criteria.
From Friday 26th May, all shortlisted applications will be able to share the news with their networks in order to gain votes which will determine the winners of the People’s Choice Awards for both Professional Tutors and Tuition Businesses.
On Thursday 22nd June at 23:59PM the People’s Choice Awards voting will close.