The company
A tutoring company that employs its tutors.
Will Orr-Ewing was a history teacher at a London prep school when he founded Keystone Tutors in 2007. Josh Pull joined him as co-founder in 2008. Today Keystone has offices in London, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Unlike most tutoring agencies, Keystone employs its tutors. More than 60 work for it full time, alongside a select pool of freelancers. Keystone treats tutoring as a career, and it trains its tutors that way.
How Keystone chooses and trains tutors
Every tutor passes an enhanced DBS check, an interview, a practice lesson and an academic assessment, and commits for more than two years. Twice a year the whole team meets to train, and in reflection sessions tutors watch recordings of their own lessons.
Families hear back too. A client manager calls after the first lesson, and parents get a written report every month on what was covered and what comes next.
Why the online board had to be right
Keystone’s tutors teach online to families around the world. Their lessons run on past papers, full textbooks and carefully laid-out notes, so the board has to handle a long PDF, writing over a diagram and an undo without a second thought.
