Trust and standards
How tutors are selected
Everyone teaching through Tutor came through the same process. This is that process, stage by stage, including what is written down at each one.
The stages
A person moves forward one stage at a time. Nobody skips ahead, and the record cannot be rewritten backwards to make an earlier decision look like something else.
- Stage 1
Apply
Someone applies to teach with us, giving their subjects, levels, qualifications and the ways they are able to teach.
What goes on the record: The application, and the date it arrived.
- Stage 2
Subject assessment
They are assessed on the subject they want to teach. Applying is not a qualification, and neither is a CV.
What goes on the record: The assessment, its outcome, and who ran it.
- Stage 3
Review
A person goes through the assessment result and the submitted documents together.
What goes on the record: The document review, its outcome, and who carried it out.
- Stage 4
Interview, where the role requires one
Some roles are interviewed and some are not. We do not stage an interview that changes nothing, because then an interview on the record would mean nothing either.
What goes on the record: The interview and its outcome, where there is one.
- Stage 5
Selection
A decision is taken to work with them. It cannot be taken unless a passed subject assessment and a completed document review are already on the record.
What goes on the record: The decision, and the person who took it.
- Stage 6
Onboarding
They set up what they will actually teach — subjects, levels, the modes they teach in, and when they are available.
What goes on the record: Each onboarding step completed.
- Stage 7
Teaching
They are authorised to teach particular subjects, at particular levels, in particular modes. None of it is blanket permission.
What goes on the record: Every authorisation separately, and who granted it.
Each stage leaves evidence, not a tick
Anybody can click a person through a pipeline. What stops that here is that the later stages refuse to happen unless the earlier evidence is genuinely on the record: a passed subject assessment and a completed document review, each with an outcome and the person who carried it out.
That is the difference between "assessed and reviewed" as a description and as a claim. Without it, a working tutor would be an assertion by whoever pressed the button last.
Being selected is not blanket permission
Authorisation is granted per subject, per level, and per mode of teaching. Approved for Class 10 Mathematics online is not approved for Class 12 Physics in person, and the system does not treat it as though it were.
What can happen afterwards
- Teaching can be paused, when somebody is unavailable for a term. A pause is not an ending; they come back.
- Teaching can be suspended by us, which we can later lift or make final.
- The relationship can end — because we did not take an application further, because the person withdrew, or because they are no longer teaching with us. Those three are kept apart on the record, because a record that cannot tell a refusal from a resignation tells you nothing.
- Somebody who applies again starts a new record. An earlier rejection is never quietly overwritten by a later success.