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expatben · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject: Whats a fair price?

I am tying to break into private tutoring, teaching the Poles in my community, maybe even the Asians in the city. My question is, for a qualified ESL teacher with classroom experience, what is a fair price?
Any thoughts are welcome
Expat

been_there · Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 284 Location: 127.0.0.1

Why not put on a fake accent and call up various other schools in your area and see what THEY are charging: ask for the teachers qualifications etc.

BELS · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 402 Location: Moscow

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I am tying to break into private tutoring, teaching the Poles in my community, maybe even the Asians in the city. My question is, for a qualified ESL teacher with classroom experience, what is a fair price? I was thinking 7 pounds per hour
Any thoughts are welcome
Expat
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Perhaps Expat means is teaching a class of students, about ten per class ? I would then consider the fee of �7.00 per academic hour quite reasonable. Perhaps rent a classroom in a school, college or office block?

By the way, Expat from what? What Nationality are you ?

My wife and I are doing something similar in Moscow, and we are planning some sort of link with opening a small school in UK.

Why stop at Poles or Asians? You have the whole world wanting to come to the source of the English language. The UK.

Any contribution of discussion and your experiences from private self employed teachers in UK would be most welcome