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private tutoring is booming as parents scramble to give their children an academic Edge record numbers of students are being enrolled in a bid to snare private school scholarship saving families tens of thousands of dollars in school fees for many education has become a competitive numbers game ishka maharaj's family investing in private tutoring to help snare her a scholarship at the University of New South Wales the entire degree might have been around 40,000 and I had to only pay about 25 of that the race is on for students to snap up private secondary school scholarships too many of which offer 50% off fees from prep to university around one in seven students are now trying to gain an edge through private tutoring we started the year with 10 sites we've got 35 and by the end of the year we're expecting to reach 100 sites all across the country it just feels like great to know that you're like the best tuted since age five Evan Zen is almost 2 years ahead of his peers with the Asian frame of mind it comes certain expectations um so I think um I'm not as harsh as some of the other tiger moms with 880,000 registered and informal tutors now operating nationally there are calls for the boom industry to be regulated I'd prefer greater disclosure around the actual qualifications and experience tutors have UNESCO says tutoring is a global phenomenon and next month we'll debate the pros and cons like social inequality the academic burden on children and skewed learning we've seen 97% of all of our students Excel Opportunity Knocks with nap plan revealing one in three school students are struggling Jackie Quest 7 News