In the last year, student news has been dominated with headlines about increasing tuition fees. While £9000 a year has a ring to it that's not hard to forget, many students are also being hit by hidden costs that universities expect people to pay without subsidisation or previous warning.

A personal tutor can often find a weak area and address the problem when a teacher (however gifted) can overlook this in a noisy, demanding class of 20 children.

Middle-class childrearing is a famously ferocious business. To propel their progeny many parents have a closely guarded weapon - the private tutor. ...

THE spiralling cost of higher education grew to new heights yesterday, with news students in Wales will pay up to 11% more for their university accomm...