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Private Tuition FAQ's
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Q. Can I post an advert straight away?
A. You must be registered with us at the website. If you are already registered
login and post an advert! If not
register here.
Q. Is the form easy to fill in?
A. We have given guidance to each section as you go through it. This is so that
parents have a uniform set of adverts to view. This is easier for them to
search and compare tutors and quick and easy for you to fill in.
Q. What information do I have to give?
A. When filling out the advert forms you will be asked these questions.
Contact Details - This section is for Times and Days available for
tuition, length of lessons. You may also want to put price per hour down or
'Price on application'. If you are being contacted by phone, you may want to
put down convenient times and days for contact.
What geographical area do you cover? - Here we want information as to
where the lessons are to take place, where you are willing to travel to (a
travel radius) etc.
What Age range are you tutoring? - Age range and ability range that you
are offering to tutor.
What Subjects do you cover? - This will include the subject and the Key
stage/Examination level you will cover.
What qualifications have you got? - Example Qualified teacher status,
specialist mathematics and statistics. BSc, PGCE, MEd.
Please describe your self. - This may be such as 'Young enthusiastic
teacher, on career break bringing up children, looking to stimulate young
minds'.
Describe your Teaching experience. - This could be the number of years
you have been teaching and the establishments/schools you have been teaching at
Other Information? - This can include any information you think is
relevant to your tutoring.
It may be useful to copy and paste these questions into word processing package
and type in your answers. Then when placing the advert you can copy and paste
into the appropriate boxes.
Q. How will potential clients search for me?
A. They will search the three criteria in our directories. You select the
information for the directories when submitting your advert.
Subject (Up to three subjects can be offered)
County (This the geographical location you will cover. Up to three counties can
be inputted)
LEA (Again geographical areas that you can offer).
Q. Doesn't this restrict the information I can give out?
A. This is only part of the information you submit. You offer more details in
the on-line forms. You can specify the exact details of times, places, Key
Stages you can offer etc.
Q. How will Parents contact me?
A. When you fill in your advert you will have options that show how you wish to
be contacted. You can use any combination of these. You control this through
your User Area and they can be amended by you at any time. The options are -
show address, show phone number, show e-mail address, fill in form. By opting
fill in form only you won't give out any private details, the draw back is that
if any details filled in on the form are incorrect you have no way of
contacting that person.
Note: Only personal information you allow will be given out on the website.
Q. Do I have to keep visiting the website to get my contacts?
A. All contacts made through the form or e-mail options are e-mailed to you.
Potential clients may contact you through your phone number if this is one of
your preferred contact options.
Q. Do I get any other contact method for clients?
A. When you first post your advert we will e-mail you with any good matches to
your advert already on our website. If, at a later date, a parent signs up for
an advert and they match the details y ou are offering an e-mail alert will be
sent to you. This will happen whether or not your advert is switched on. This
way you may find time to potentially squeeze another client into your time
schedule.
Q. How long before my advert will appear?
A. Have you filled in the online forms, proof read it and submitted it ? If so
it will appear straight away!!!
Q. What happens if I want to change my advert?
A. You control your advert through the User Area. You an access this area at
anytime and change any details you wish. You are in full control of your
advert. For example if you are booked up on one evening then you can delete
this time from your advert.
Q. What happens if I'm fully booked up?
A. Again your User Area will control the advert. From this area you can switch
off 'Show Advert' and the advert will not appear on the website. The advert
will still be in your User Area ready for you to Switch On/Edit at a later
date. You can also delete you advert from the database if you wish.
Q. I've searched and can't find anyone?
A. If advertisers have switched off their adverts we don't show them. For
example, if you look under the County directory and can't see a County you are
looking for, then there are no adverts under that County. This is to save time
searching.
Important: It could be that the adverts are switched off for that
area/subject - but by putting in your own advert any good match that is
switched off will be alerted to your advert by e-mail.
Q. Will the advert run for ever?
A. After 11 months we will contact you by e-mail and ask if you wish to keep
the advert running, if you do just follow the instructions. The reason we will
do this is to enable us to clear out old data from our database. Old data just
fills up server space and makes the website less efficient to run.
Q. Do we inform you if we get a client?
A. No. The only thing you may need to do is to amend your advert appropriately.
Q. Why should we advertise with you?
A. We are a unique website in the fact that our regular visitors make up of
thousands of teachers and parents. Hence we can bring these two bodies of
people together for mutual benefit. What's more it is FREE, national and you
can be very specific in your requirements.
Q. Who is responsible if things go wrong?
A. Any contract or agreement you make is between you and the client. Fisher
Educational accepts no liability for losses or problems which arise out of your
use of our service. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of your
advertisement.
Q. Who are
10ticks.co.uk?
A. Our company name is Fisher Educational Ltd, Company Registration No 3668099,
and we trade over the internet under the domain name
http://www.10ticks.co.uk. We are made
up of teachers, admin staff and programmers. Our contact details are on the
home page.
Q. Do you charge the tutors/parents a commission fee?
A. No.
Q. Are you a home tuition agency?
A. No. We are just advertising platform. We work in a similar way to a
newspapers' classified advertisements column.
...and finally some advice.
You would be well advised to have a copy of testimonials to show potential
clients, quote a referee if you wish. Tutors are urged to protect themselves
against malicious allegations. It may be better to work in the client's own
home, within sight and sound of parents.
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