Use of private tuition among 11-16 year olds
The proportion of young people who say they have received private tuition has remained high over the last year, with Londoners most likely to have had extra teaching, according to a survey carried out by the Ipsos Social Research Institute on behalf of the Sutton Trust. Nearly one in four 11-16 year olds at state schools in England and Wales indicated that their parents had paid for them to have extra help with their lessons. Results from the research, carried out on Ipsos’s Young People Omnibus, show that 24% of all young people in 2013 said they had received private or home tuition at some stage in their school career, compared with 18% in 2005 and 23% in 2012.
These numbers are much higher for young people in London. 40% of Londoners had received some extra tuition over their school careers, with 24% saying they had benefited from extra coaching in the last year alone. By contrast, only 9% of Welsh pupils had ever received any private or home tuition, including 5% over the last year.
Technical note
The Sutton Trust added questions to Ipsos’s 2013 Young People Omnibus. The findings are based on data from a representative sample of 2,595 11-16 year olds attending maintained schools in England and Wales. The research was conducted in a sample of schools, with pupils filling out paper, self-completion questionnaires under supervision by Ipsos’s interviewers. Fieldwork was conducted between 1 February and 19 April 2013. Data has been weighted by school year, gender and region to match the profile of school children across England and Wales.
