Over the years Bright Young Things has featured in some of UK's
most popular newspapers and magazines:
The Economist
The Economist 30th June
Provide parents with the wherewithal to navigate the UK
schooling system
The Sunday Times
Sunday Times Magazine 20th September 2009
Evening Standard
Evening Standard 9 Jun 2010
Now dozens of tutors from Bright Young Things
Tuition, which specialises in preparing boys for the Eton entrance
exam, are volunteering to help ex-offenders.
Evening Standard 16 June 2009
Financial Times
Financial Times 11 June 2009
The Spectator
Dear Mary 5 July 2009
The Times
The Times 10 April 2010
The Independent
The Independent Tuesday 8 November 2011
Kensington and Chelsea Today
Kensington and Chelsea Today 23
November 2011
Often we'll be given 24 hours notice to get a tutor
to a certain family in the Hamptons, or to Dubai and not just
whoever is available - the parents will often have a whole list of
specs for us to fulfil.
Tutors can assist at any stage of a child or
young person's life. Sometimes it can just be one or two days or a
week of support prior to an important exam that can make the
difference in a pass or fail mark or even help with that foreboding
subject
Tutors are for more than just guidance
and tuition; they can provide a child with an additional role
model.
The Telegraph
The Telegraph 7 December 2011
Instead of buying an essay off the internet, he turned to
the tutorial agency Bright Young Things, which spent three and a
half hours with him (at £60 an hour) planning his essay. Result? A
2:1 grade, but it was all his own work.
"We don't write people's essays, we merely teach them
essay-production skills," maintains Oliver Eccles, one of Bright
Young Things' senior tutors.
I left school without knowing how to write an essay
properly. In my first week at uni I got in touch with Oli at Bright
Young Things Tuition and he introduced me to an essay writing
tutor. I had weekly lessons (over skype while I was at university
and the tutor in London) learning how to structure an essay
and practising essay writing. Writing a well structured essay is a
skill and once you learn it you can do it! I didn't need an essay
to be written for me I just needed to be taught the basics I was
never taught at school.
The Times
The Times 26 November 2011
Malachy Guinness, its co-founder, who attended
Marlborough College and Christ Church, Oxford, said: "People who
are used to using a tutoring agency at A level are going to
university and find they have the same problems. Their solution, as
it was last time, is to pick up the phone to us."
His tutors offer advice on organising study with a
course and assembling arguments for a piece of written work. They
will not write a student's essay but will send annotated notes
offering comment on the client's own draft.
Clemmie from St Hilda's
College
"I thought I needed some kind of support from people who had
done it before," she said. She contacted Bright Young Things
Tuition, which put her in touch with Oxford postgraduate students
who studied the same course and advised her on structuring her
studies. She also met tutors in London.
Private tutoring was particularly helpful when preparing a
7,000-word dissertation. "My supervisor didn't really help me much
with how to put it together and how to format your arguments in
terms of presentation." Clemmie is dyslexic and found the
university's support classes too general: she wanted advice for her
course, such as scanning research papers to identify key
points.
She said: "I had a lot of the knowledge. I am just not very
good at phrasing it to get all the stuff on
paper."
Ed from Bristol
He was not happy with his essay assignment for this term,
which will be assessed as part of his degree. Bright Young Things
Tuition had helped him with two of his weaker A-level subjects when
he was at St Edward's boarding school in Oxford.
"I emailed them the essay. They have this clever annotation
tool," he said. "They analyse and draw lines, annotate it with
suggestions."
A tutor spent about three hours with him discussing how he
could improve its structure. "I used a tutor to make my argument
stronger by using key words, having sentences that flowed, correct
in the grammar and punctuation, and make sure my passages and
conclusions answered the question directly," he
said.
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times 15 January 2012
The Money Magie
www.moneymagpie.com
The Evening Standard
The Evening Standard 16 February 2012
The tutors, who can earn up to £300 an hour for private
tuition, are volunteering in 12 London schools with 300
children.
Bright Young Things, the tutor organisation that runs the
project, wants to roll out the scheme to another 30 schools by next
year so 1,200 pupils can benefit.
Oliver Eccles, director of education at Bright Young Things,
said: "In experiencing one-to-one attention from our world-class
tutors, we hope to bring the benefits of a privileged education to
those let down by our failing system."
Money Week
Money Week 19 February 2012
The Tatler
The Tatler 7th March 2012
The Hill Magazine
The Hill Magazine 14 May 2012
The Good Schools Guide
The Good Schools
Guide
Money Week
The dad wanted an Oxbridge, received-pronunciation-speaking,
clean-living tutor
The Times
The Times 6th October
The Country Life
Bright Young Things can offer a helping hand with students and
subjects of all ages and stages. "We aim to help a student to
achieve whatever academic goal they have set themselves in the
shortest possible time".
The Telegraph
The Telegraph 3d February 2013
