What Your Tutor Can Do

I do not mean work like tutoring or chatting of course. I meant in depth tutoring. What tutoring styles can there be?

Tutor your child's school homework
Some parents want a "study partner" for their child. The tutor will then ask your child if there are any homework that he has done, and the tutor will go through the school's homework with your child.

Teaching your child according to a plan
These tutors have a plan to follow. The whole course has nothing to do with school work. It is an extra practice time for your child.

Practice with the child on a ten-year-series book
What kind of tutor does your child need? You have to decide if your tutor is helping with existing homework, or just providing extra work for your child or both.

Tutoring Qualifications
Required level of qualification for Tutoring. A PhD student in biology may be able to teach Biology very well, but this is not to say a tutor with only an A level biology will be any worse/better at teaching GCSE students.

It might be more appropriate for the PhD student to tutor under graduates and A-level students.
For academic subjects, the tutor should at least have a bear minimum qualification in the subject they are teaching. For example GCSE students of Mathematics should be taught by tutors that hold a good grade in Maths A-Level or Mathematics degree level.