Tuition agencies are commercial organisations who specialise in introducing tutors to students who require their help. Their existence is largely due to the problems parents or students face in finding a specialist who can help them with the study of a specific subject. The major tuition agencies also have the advantage of being known to the education authorities and thereby having access to lists of offenders and other undesirable characters who masquerade as tutors in the small ads of newspapers. They are also often able to provide tutors for even the more obscure languages, subjects and musical instruments.
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