The winner of the NZTA Win a Free Term’s Tuition competition is Mrs Besley of Auckland. She will able receive tuition at a NZTA Tuition Provider of her choice.
Congratulations!
New Zealand Tutoring Association
Representing tutoring organisations and educational tutors throughout New Zealand
The winner of the NZTA Win a Free Term’s Tuition competition is Mrs Besley of Auckland. She will able receive tuition at a NZTA Tuition Provider of her choice.
Congratulations!
Private Tutoring is a rapidly expanding industry around the world with the New Zealand tutoring industry experiencing considerable growth over the last decade. Overseas statistics indicate the tutoring industry has been growing by 7-10% each year over the last decade.
New Zealand offers a wide range of tutoring facilities ranging from private tutors working from their homes to tutoring organizations. All share the same vision of helping students achieve their goals. With the emphasis on the ‘importance of a good education’ becoming an essential requirement in today’s world, the place of the tutor has almost become a compulsory component in a student’s educational journey.
Once upon a time extra tutoring was seen as a confirmation of low intelligence and failure on the horizon. Thankfully this ‘stigma’ attached to extra tutoring that was prevalent twenty years has disappeared. Students now seek tutoring for a range of reasons such as: examination preparation, extension and enrichment work, additional support when in a competitive environment in order to achieve top results and those low achieving students needing extra help in areas they find difficult.
A professional working relationship between schools and tutors/tutoring organizations has developed more recently. This relationship promotes the needs of the students and fosters unity among education providers. It gives parents/caregivers the confidence that their son/daughter’s tuition is aligned with national requirements.
The New Zealand Tutoring Association (NZTA) is an association that was formed in 2008 to unify the tutoring industry nationally by representing tutors and tutoring organizations and to ensure that tutoring in New Zealand is kept at a high standard. All members must abide by the Code of Conduct.
By choosing to receive tuition from a member of the NZTA parents can be rest assured that they are dealing with a professional and ethical tuition provider.
New Zealand parents are increasingly making a choice to supplement their children’s education by sending them to tuition providers. Private tuition centres have exploded in numbers and are catering for pre-schoolers to school-leavers with after-school and holiday programmes. In Australia one in five children is estimated to have some tutoring. Researchers in Britain say more than a quarter of state school pupils receive private lessons.
“Tutoring in New Zealand is a multi-million dollar business. Like many burgeoning industries, tutoring has attracted a number of unscrupulous operators. Most tutors and tutoring organisations do the right thing but we want to ensure the industry becomes more accountable and operates in a professional manner”, says Dr. Ralph Wesseling of the newly formed New Zealand Tutoring Association.
The New Zealand Tutoring Association represents tutoring organisations and educational tutors throughout New Zealand. The NZTA believes it is time for self regulation of the tutoring industry to ensure accountability and consumer protection. Membership means strict adherence to the NZTA Code of Conduct. Upholding the Code of Conduct should ensure that there is consistency and reliability for the practitioners and their clients.
The New Zealand Tutoring Association was set up in close cooperation with the Australian Tutoring Association (ATA) and has been formed in recognition of the need to unify standards for the tutoring industry nationally. Moves to set up the NZTA was initiated and sponsored by two of New Zealand’s foremost tutoring companies: Kip McGrath and NumberWorks’nWords. The NZTA aims to represent tutors and tutoring organisations, act as a lobby group and raise the standard of tutoring in New Zealand.
In order to become NZTA members tutoring organisations must agree to abide by a strict Code of Conduct which addresses all of the main issues related to ethical conduct including the need for businesses to:
• have a refund policy
• have full disclosure of qualifications of staff
• demonstrate a particular focus on honesty in advertising as there is no place for exaggerated or misleading claims, deceptive practices or high pressure selling
• engage in accurate reporting which provides insight into the students’ progress and avoids creating dependencies
• refuse to do student work for the student – avoiding plagiarism and encouraging independence and the learning of their students
• disclose the form(s) of testing used or to be used by the tutors in assessing students
• have a written grievance procedure available for parents in the event of any dispute.
To find out more about the NZTA visit their website www.nztutoring.com
Dr Ralph Wesseling | NZ Tutoring Association | PO Box 9450 Newmarket, Auckland 1149 | ralphw@nztutoring.com