One in 5 pays tutor to earn a high-grade university degree

♦ University students are turning to private tutors to help them gain high-grade degrees, a survey found.

Pressure to graduate with a 2:1 or first class degree has led to relying on tutors to boost their grades, said Mylene Curtis, who runs Fleet Tutors, which hires out tutors and education experts to students.

“A lot of students don’t have the writing skills that are required for university level work,” she said. “That is quite common.”

Of the students who sought extra help, two thirds hired a one-on-one tutor, while one in five had clubbed together with peers to pay for a group tutor, claimed a poll of 3,500 undergraduates by Unidays, a discount voucher site.