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Afternoons with Helen Farmer

The downside of tutoring

1 hour 7 minutes | Monday, 19 January 2026

Exam season is here - and hitting straight after the holidays, leading many parents to turn to tutors over the festive break. But as new research suggests, is over tutoring creating more problems than it solves? Helen asks education consultant Heather Harries. Plus, we meet two women determined to help us master the return to work – or mid-career pivot – with confidence, and ask the author of a new book why he thinks the way we breathe might be making us ill…See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The downside of tutoring
Afternoons with Helen Farmer

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