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Tuition centers offer mostly one-on-one instruction to students at times convenient for both tutors and students, in contrast to group classes with fixed timetables in schools. While teachers in schools are paid monthly salaries, tutors at tuition centers are compensated through hourly rates with no limits on pay. Many parents in Singapore feel compelled to send their children to tuition centers or hire home tutors due to academic competition from foreign students and the widespread use of private tutoring.

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Tuition

Tuition centers offer mostly one-on-one instruction to students at times convenient for both tutors and students, in contrast to group classes with fixed timetables in schools. While teachers in schools are paid monthly salaries, tutors at tuition centers are compensated through hourly rates with no limits on pay. Many parents in Singapore feel compelled to send their children to tuition centers or hire home tutors due to academic competition from foreign students and the widespread use of private tutoring.

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In contrast to schools where teaching occurs in groups (i.e.

 classes) and set timetables, tuition


centres offer students (i.e. tutees) mostly one-on-one instruction and at times convenient to both,
the tutor and the tutee. While teachers at schools are paid through fixed yet capped monthly
salaries, their counterparts at tuition centres are compensated through hourly rate payments with
(theoretically) no boundaries.
There are teachers who earn up to RM10,000 or S$8,000 by giving private tuition. Notwithstanding,
there is a huge, and still growing, trend among local parents who send their kids to tuition. Given the
immense academic competition attributed to foreign scholars and the proliferating private-tuition
trend, some parents feel that they have little choice but to engage tuition centres or opt for home
tuition.[3][4][5][6]
Tuition centres are a very competitive business in Singapore. There are an estimated 2000 tuition
centres in Singapore alone.[citation needed]

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