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Our Process for Successful Learning
Through the Tutor Doctor Process we are able to get to know your student to identify the right learning strategy and the perfect tutor.
Assess
Through our free consultation process, we place the student at the centre of things, working together on a personalised plan to help achieve their desired outcomes.
Match
The local office team review the report from the consultation and start the process of making the match with a member of the Cambridge tutoring team. The match will be based on a number of factors, including experience and personality as well as someone who can meet the timeslots and location that works for you.
Tutor
Our personalised coaching means the curriculum revolves around your child. We provide homework help and fill in the gaps to create confident, independent learners.
Support
We support your family every step of the way. A member of our Cambridge office team will check in regularly on progress and you will be provided with weekly session reports.
Why Use Tutor Doctor Cambridge
Tutor Doctor Cambridge provides personalised one-to-one tutoring across all ages and subjects, both at home and online. Alongside supporting local families, we also work directly with schools, sixth-form colleges, and the Cambridgeshire and Norfolk County Councils to deliver targeted academic intervention. As a trusted local team since 2010, we combine professional expertise with a friendly, community-focused approach that helps students succeed.
✔ Tutors personally matched to each situation.
✔ All tutors carefully recruited and safety-checked.
✔ Convenient in-home & online tutoring - we come to you!
✔ Local Cambridge service – friendly and professional.
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From in-home tuition to school-based intervention, we’re here to support learners of all ages and levels. Book a free consultation and get matched with the right tutor.
Tutor Doctor provides tutoring services to students of all ages, levels, and subjects. We come to your home or meet you online at a time that suits you, helping you or your child fill knowledge gaps and build confidence. In addition to supporting families, we also partner with schools, sixth-form colleges, and local authorities to deliver tailored academic intervention and learning support. Just a few of the tutoring services we offer include the following:
Often virtual, rather than in-person tuition is a better solution for the student. We can select from a wider range of tutors and can leverage increased functionality from the latest tuition software solutions. Tutor Doctor Cambridge offers online as well as in-person sessions, making high-quality tutoring accessible from anywhere through our easy-to-use online platform, LessonSpace. Students can talk, sketch, and share resources with their tutor in real time, creating an engaging learning experience that mirrors in-person support. This solution offers complete flexibility, bringing students and tutors together at a time that works for you. All sessions are fully personalised and individualised and it allows us to continue supporting both families and our partner schools with consistent, effective learning intervention with additional benefits such as automatic session recordings that enable students to play back every session at any time.
✔ Get Matched with a carefully recruited local tutor, working on-line
✔ Talk, Sketch & Share Resources in Real-Time With Your Tutor
✔ Flexible to Suit Your Schedule, Wherever You Are
✔ Play Back Your Sessions at Any Time
Tutoring Support for Schools & Local Authorities
Tutor Doctor Cambridge partners with schools, sixth-form colleges, and local authorities to deliver personalised, evidence-based tutoring programmes. We support learners of all abilities, including SEND and disadvantaged students, through carefully matched, DBS-checked tutors who work one-to-one or in small groups, either in school or online. With a clear and structured implementation process and regular progress reporting, we ensure every intervention is aligned with school goals and student needs. As a locally owned but nationally backed team, we offer both community insight and consistently high standards.
✔ Flexible delivery: in-school, online, one-to-one or small groups
✔ Weekly progress updates and close collaboration with teachers
✔ Targeted support for SEND, disadvantaged, and high-achieving students
✔ A trusted local partner backed by a national network of tutoring specialists
Meet Rob and Lynne Kerrison
Owners of Tutor Doctor Cambridge
In 2010, Rob and Lynne left successful careers in Marketing and HR respectively, and decided it was time to build a business together. They have always considered themselves to be a strong team and wanted to create a business they would be proud of. With their kids off to school and 40th birthdays on the horizon, they decided it was time to make their plans a reality.
Rob and Lynne went on the hunt for inspiration in order to start their scary journey away from corporate life. Just as they were researching various routes, a Canadian based business called Tutor Doctor was presented to them; it appealed to them on so many levels. The biggest attraction was that it was about helping people (and especially children) learn and helping them fulfil their potential. Rob and Lynne felt this business idea was perfect for them, perfect for their values and perfect for Cambridge.
Many years on and it’s proved to be just that!
Supporting Cambridge Students, Families & Schools
We’re proud to provide personalised tutoring rooted in local expertise and a commitment to helping every student succeed.
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We tutor more Maths than any other subject here in Cambridge. One-to-one tutoring really lends itself to learning Maths, with a specialist and carefully selected tutor able to go back to the foundations, or what we call “building blocks”, so that the current Maths being worked on becomes more easily understood. For Maths tutoring we often talk about Method and Care. Maths is about being secure on the method, but then taking care to not lose your way or to lose marks unnecessarily come exam time. We provide tutoring services for a wide range of Maths students, from Primary through to GCSE and A-Level and adult learners too.
Exam Preparation
A lot of what we do helps us get students ready for the big day, for the exam that often has been preying on their minds. Every situation is different, so by getting to know the students we can set up a plan that aids progress in their grasp of three areas: content, study skills and exam technique. Exams are a stressful point in any student’s academic career, but we aim to leave the student feeling that they absolutely gave it their best shot and left nothing behind.
We obviously do lots of preparation for GCSE’s and A-Levels, but we’re also busy with entrance exams for the Cambridge schools such as The Perse, The Stephen Perse Foundation and The Leys. As with all exam preparation support we do, there isn’t a magic formula, but we strive to help the student cover the necessary content so there’s no surprises on the day and that they have a plan on what they’re going to do and how they’re going to do it.
The tutors we work with bring comprehensive knowledge and insight into the exams for which they tutor. We connect you with personally matched tutors based on a wide range of factors which we’ll discuss with the student at the consultation. Our experienced tutors will provide individualised instruction, instant feedback, detailed session reports and they have the accountability to help ensure your student can achieve their personal best.
English Tutoring
Tutor Doctor can help students of all ages and levels improve their use of our language, and when it comes to it, their marks for GCSE’s and A-Levels, and for the younger students for their SATs and 11+/13+ Entrance Exams. Whether the student’s struggling with reading, comprehension, or any other aspect of the curriculum, the tutors we work with can help to sharpen their skills, and also give them some belief and confidence back. Yes, there’s often exams to be taken, but using words well helps us all be better communicators, giving an advantage throughout one's life. The areas we can help you or your student include:
English Language GCSE’s and A-Levels
English Literature GCSE’s and A-Levels
Comprehension
Creative Writing
Spelling and Grammar
Handwriting
Reading
Special Educational Needs Tutoring
We know all students can succeed given the right tools and personalised one-to-one attention, which is exactly what our tutoring programmes aim to provide. Genuinely, every student is different and some students we work with have specific educational needs that have been diagnosed and require a certain approach with regards to how they go about their learning. We will work together to create the right educational framework to help your child succeed. We will be very clear with prospective tutors we approach for all students, but especially those with SEND, what the situation is and give them the necessary detail so that they can confidently step forward to work with the student based on their skills and experience. Just give us a call to discuss your situation so that we can advise if we can help, but here's a shortlist of some of the categories of SEND students we work with:
Autism Spectrum Disorder
ADHD
Auditory and Visual Processing Disorders
Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities
Language Based Learning Disabilities
Deafness/ are Hard of Hearing
Blindness/ are Partially Sighted
Languages Tutoring
Learning a foreign language is becoming more and more important in an increasingly integrated community. From helping to open doors for job opportunities to broadening horizons, learning to communicate in another language can help stretch mental capabilities. Language is such a key aspect to setting your student up for success in their future professional endeavours.
We will pair students to a personally matched tutor, making learning a new language more enjoyable. Whether you are an adult needing assistance with a language or have a child struggling through a language class for GCSE or A-Level, the tutors we work with can fit into your schedule. The main languages we tutor are as follow, but do ask us as we can, more often than not, find a solution for people who approach us for help in something more unusual:
French
German
Spanish
And More!
Online Tutoring
Tutor Doctor's online learning tools provide an exceptional experience for students who need a specialist tutor who may not be available locally. Also, online tutoring allows our local tutors to continue working with your child when circumstances interfere with the usual run of things: cars breaking down, trips abroad, a broken leg! Our online tools are purposefully built for tutoring. They’re easy to use and allow your student to talk, sketch and share resources with their online tutor in real-time. We use a specialist learning platform which records every session. This means that the student can play back the session in their own time and each session is also indexed so that you and the tutor can search for the topic and it will tell you exactly where to find it. Online Tutoring makes life really simple by bringing tutors and students together at any time. When you aren't limited to being matched with tutors available in your area, we are able to find you or your student the best possible match! Some of the advantages of online tutoring are:
Massive pool of carefully recruited Online Tutors
Removes the restriction of location from the tutor matching process
Flexible to suit your schedule, wherever you are
Talk, sketch & share resources in real-time with your Tutor
Affordable rates
Play back your sessions at any time
Search for topics from the sessions you’ve had
Science Tutoring
Maths, English, Science and Languages make up probably 80% of what we do but, especially for A-Level, we open up to other popular subjects including History, Geography, RE, Business Studies, Economics, Politics and Social Sciences: Psychology, Sociology and Philosophy. The work the tutors do will focus on content first but also exam/essay skills. Just writing down everything you know about a topic area will really only get you so far and often a disappointingly low grade. The tutor will help coach and guide against the marking scheme set by the relevant Examination Boards, providing skills and tools to help the student maximise their return from the knowledge they have.
Tutor Doctor understands that not all students learn these subjects in the same way – we use our consultation to get a good grasp of how the student likes to learn and where their particular concerns are so that we can match the right tutor for them. Our method of individually matching each student with a tutor ensures compatibility between student and “instructor”, allowing for a more productive, natural, and customised education. The result is a more enjoyable learning experience (and teaching experience) and higher marks.
Science Tutoring
In Science courses, students need to process large amounts of information and retain it. Additionally, sometimes the areas studied each year are without any overlap in knowledge. Consequently, Tutor Doctor is able to assist you or your student in every area of the curriculum and help face each new challenge. The tutors we work with have the skills and experience to help students quickly improve their grades and confidence in Science. We work with students working towards GCSE and A-Levels, and younger students too. The disciplines the tutors we work with cover include:
