#tutorfair

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Sophie tutors Ancient History (A-Level), Ancient History (AS), Art, Art (11+), Art (A-Level), Art (AS), History, History (11+), History (A-Level), Hi

I am now an online history tutor with Tutorfair.com!

If you’re interested in being tutored please head to the site and send me a message. The site is linked to a charity that will provide education to those who need it most, so it’s well worth buying a few lessons!

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Listen up if you have a GCSE (or equiv) or higher qualification and want to make money and help others!!

There's this app/website called TutorFair and basically you can tell them what you strong subject(s) are and to what degree you can teach them. They'll upload your profile and you can decide how much you want to charge people for a tutoring session. They'll find clients for you, the clients will pay them. Then, a week later, they'll deposit the money into your bank account. BUT WAIT!!! WHAT IS MORE: for every session someone books, TutorFair will give someone who needs it a free session. So, those who can afford it cam get a little extra help AND those who can't afford it can benefit too.

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New endeavour alert! I've registered as a tutor with Tutorfair, as I'm considering a career in education and would like to help pupils achieve their full potential in the meantime smile emoticon I'm going to be offering advice and support in GCSE/A-Level English and also GCSE/A-Level History of Art, so if you or anyone you know may be interested then please get in touch! My Tutorfair profile is pretty handy as it has all my qualifications and available lesson slots ready to view, so you can check that out here: https://www.tutorfair.com/tutor/name/amelia/id/18909/profile.

Also my favourite thing about this is that for every person I tutor, Tutorfair take a percentage donation from my earnings to give free tuition to a child who would not otherwise have access to such support. (This is why my rate (£19.06/hr) is such a weird number tongue emoticon )

Anyway, I'd really love this opportunity to support young peoples' education so it would be great if you could recommend me to a friend or family member (preferably a UK West Midlander :P) who may be interested! Ta x

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Tutorfair are hiring a Front-end Developer

We’re expanding fast and are looking to grow our team. Get in touch if you (or someone you know) fits the bill

The Position

We are looking for a coding ninja to join an amazing start-up alongside a great team. We know the best want to work with the best; that’s what we offer and that’s what we look for.

You will have a background in Web development with an emphasis on front-end technologies but some back-end skills will be useful as well. The role will require full-time hands on coding, you must be a self-motivated quick learner and self-starter, and probably be a little bit nuts on the side.

You will be working with the lead ninja on improving and building new features for the Tutorfair website.

The Company: Tutorfair

We are building a marketplace for tutors, with a social mission. For every child who pays we give tutoring to a child who can’t afford it.

a unique brand and design that bring this mission to life

we have 150 amazing tutors so far, more joining every day, and clients booking

we have established relationships with charities and schools to reach as many struggling children as possible

we have investments and expressions of interest from top class angels

some crazy founders, one headed LOVEFilM’s marketing, another flies around the world tutoring royalty and movie stars, a third is a serial entrepreneur and finally a mad developer.

This is an exciting time to join a young dynamic team with a passion for what they do.

Responsibilities

Overview of key responsibilities:

Ownership of front-end development

Provide input on user journey and ergonomics for new features or enhancements

Work with designer to achieve the best possible user experience

Implement design templates

Collaborate on back-end enhancements

Some basic devops

Bug fixing

Skills and Experience

Essential skills for the role:

Excellent knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3

Strong JavaScript, knowledge of jQuery

Working knowledge of PHP, ability to understand and patch some PHP code

Ability to produce clear lightweight technical documentation

Linux experience, ability to work at the command line

Communication skills and a sense of humor please

These skills are not essential for the role but would be beneficial:

Experience working with MVC frameworks

Working knowledge of decentralised version control systems (git, mercurial)

Experience of other programming languages

Experience of SQL

Experience of SCSS/SASS

Unit testing best practices and experience

Working in an agile and scrum development methodology

What You Can Expect

A great adventure to shape up a business while working with an experienced team with a strong track record

A combination of cash and equity, which makes the journey worth it

All the passion and fun of starting a company and making a difference

Applications

Please call Edd (m:07879 642 617) and/or send applications including a CV to:

[email protected]

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The end results

 By William Redwood

It's a delicate day for everyone. Parents have to deal with stressed children and young students have to deal with their parents and teachers, their results and their peers' results.

It's inevitably an emotional rollercoaster for them and however good their results may be, they now also have to deal with moving into a new phase of their lives. Some may be full of anxiety about what the future holds. Going to the university or college of choice can be intimidating and a past success can represent a burden in that it is a standard to be maintained in the future.

A minority of students and parents may even not feel as though celebrations are in order if things didn't go their way after all the hard work. However, that, ultimately, is the point: the hard work. It is all too easy as a parent to forget that whatever ‘Big Thursday’ brings, it was nothing but sheer hard work which got us all there. It is that work, as much as the actual results, which should be rewarded.

Successful and less than successful students alike should never feel that people’s love for them is in any way conditional on exam performance. They painfully slogged their way to this point in the year, however it went, and it is that slog which should be rewarded. Whether your darling daughter or darling son is ecstatic, ecstatic-yet-terrified about future steps soon to be taken, or distraught about their grades, about leaving school, leaving home, saying goodbye to friends or a mixture of all of the above, what matters is simply that they have worked and they have worked damn hard.

Whatever words are said, whatever gifts or rewards bestowed, whatever spin the media chooses to put on this year's outcomes, what matters now is what will always matter, sheer hard work. Whatever the mood in the home around this time, that is what should be celebrated. And that is what we as tutors, parents and carers all need to be communicating to young people right now. Celebrating their past effort is the best support we can give for whatever their future may entail.

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Weekly website update

As usual, our coders have been hard at work to make the website better just for you! Here's a peek at the changes for this week.

Not being able to see how long a lesson would be before booking has always been a problem, and now we are displaying the end time of the lessons as well as the start time across the site, so you always know what you'll be booking beforehand.

Doing things can be quite frustrating at times, when a page does not seem to do anything after having clicked a button. That's why we've changed the buttons on the website so that they react and let you know that your action is being processed.

We've noticed that the student's homepage is inconsistent, with some parts of the messages or bookings linking to different places (or not linking at all), so we've changed that and have the different items link to the tutor's profile or the message thread in a more consistent manner.

Hopefully you'll enjoy those new improvements and be ready for next week's batch of fresh features!