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Tuitionmall.com has been operating for about 9 months since it was launched in March last year. During this period, I have gathered a lot of thoughts about "Tuition" in Malaysia, and I decided to setup a blog page in this website and share those ideas with all of you.
Before I start to share everything, I would like to apologize if there are any grammar or typing errors in the article. This is because I am from a Chinese education background and English is not my frist language. I welcome any comments and corrections if you feel there are any mistakes in my article.
In the daily operation of this business, I am dealing with a lot of parents and tutors, and the most frequent question the parents or students will ask is about the tuition fee.
Is there any standard rate for a home tuition? My answer will be “YES” ( refer to the table below).
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Non- Graduates/
Undergrads |
Graduates (Part-Time Tutors) |
Full-Time Graduate Tutors |
Ex-School Teachers |
Current School Teachers |
Standard 1 to 3 |
MYR 20 |
MYR 20 |
MYR 25 |
MYR 30 |
MYR 30 |
Standard 4 to 6 |
MYR 25 |
MYR 25 |
MYR 30 |
MYR 35 |
MYR 35 |
Secondary Lower |
MYR 30 |
MYR 30 |
MYR 35 |
MYR 40 |
MYR 45 |
Secondary Upper |
MYR 35 |
MYR 35 |
MYR 40 |
MYR 45 |
MYR 50 |
Pre U / Form 6 |
MYR 40 |
MYR 40 |
MYR 45 |
MYR 50 |
MYR 60 |
refer url http://www.tuitionmall.com/tuition-rate.php
But this standard rate is just a reference to parents. The actual rate normally will be based on the following criteria:
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The location on the student's homes
The rate will be higher in certain areas in the city compared to the suburban and rural areas. For example the tuition fee in Damasara is higher compared to the fee in Kajang. Another example is the rate in Kuala Lumpur is higher compared to the rate in Ipoh.
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The number of years of the tutor experience
Tutors with more than 5 years experience will charge higher compared to those with less experienced. Normally parents are ask for experienced tutors, so the demand for experienced tutors is high thus they can charge higher. |
| 3. |
Distance to travel to the student's houses
This is one of the consideration by the tutors when they quote the fees to parents. Higher fee is charged in order to cover their petrol and travel time. |
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Number of students in a group
1 to 1 tuition fee is always higher than 1 to 2 or 1 to many. This is because the time used by the tutor is the same, so they can reduce the fee for the second, third students and so on. However, 1 to many is difficult to teach compared to 1 to 1. That is why we can't pay the same rate to 1 to 2 as we pay for 1 to 1. |
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Special qualification of the tutor
Sometimes parents request for a tutor with some special experiences or qualifications. For example the tutor has to be a SPM paper examiner. Of course, tutor with this kind of experience will charge higher compared to the common teachers. |
The tuition fees mentioned above are more for the academic subjects which are for students from pre-school to STPM. Let discuss a little bit about the professional courses like adult English, music, dancing etc. Obviously professional courses charges are much higher compared to academic tuitions. As I understand from a few tutors, they normally charge more than RM50.00 per hour, and some of them charge up to RM100 / per hour.
Nonetheless, as a tuition agent, I am opened for discussion on the tuition fee between the tutors and the parents, The iimportant thing is both of the parents and tutors are comfortable and satisfied with the fee. I am hoping all the tuition jobs that I have matched will be last longer, so this is very important.
What do you think? I would appreciate if you could add a comment on this post ...
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