Private tutoring is that rare thing - a thriving British industry. The money's first-rate and the perks even better. But who are the teachers giving all these extra lessons? You might be surprised"Earn £800 a week tutoring in Kazakhstan," read one email I received earlier this year. Another began, "carry out you fancy going to the Bahamas for three months?" Summers in St Tropez, and Hong Kong and Tuscany were also up for grabs.
Some may dismiss these emails as spam. In fact,they are a few of the "international opportunities" offered by Bright Young Things, a British agency specialising in "private bespoke tuition". In Kazakhstan the successful applicant would be provided with "accommodation 10 minutes from the family domestic"; on a Hong Kong placement, and a tutor would contain to settle for "the (spectacular) family domestic". Such assignments require at least four hours of work a day – teaching English,for example, or preparing children as young as five for entrance exams to a British private school.
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Source: theguardian.com