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Successful students usually have parents who are involved in school programmes and carefully monitor their child's progress. Children who read well in the early grades are more successful in later years; those who fall behind rarely catch up with their classmates.

National Adult Literacy Awareness Week takes place next week from September 19 to 23. South Westmeath Literacy Scheme offers help to adults who have difficulties with reading, writing, spelling, or maths. Students can take part in a group or have one-to-one help from a volunteer tutor. The centre is open 60 hours every week with classes arranged at times to suit tutors and students. All learning is student driven, and all tuition is provided free of charge.

As the children return to school, many parents start thinking about new clothes and supplies, but what about tutoring?

Road Sense is a driving school owned by Robert McHugh, which offers lessons to people living in Kilkenny city and the surrounding area.

The value placed on teachers in Ireland seems to be downgrading all the time.

The principal of a two teacher school in Conahy in Co Kilkenny has said that he is concerned for the future of two-teacher schools across rural Ireland following the value-for-money review which is currently being undertaken by the Department of Education.

Tutor Doctor is a Canadian franchise which has offices all over the USA, Canada and spreading fast across the UK and Ireland. Each franchise is locally owned so customers are guaranteed a very personal service, with worldwide expertise and best-practise for students and tutors alike.

Successful students usually have parents who are involved in school programmes and carefully monitor their child's progress. Children who read well in the early grades are more successful in later years; those who fall behind rarely catch up with their classmates. As parents, you want to support and help your child attain good grades and strong academic skills. At times, this may mean finding a tutor to help your child.

Amber Murphy, an excellent student in most subjects, was struggling with her fourth year maths last year. “I didn't have a clue,” she recalled. Her mother, Valerie, sought extra instruction for her daughter, not from her school, but from the local tutor doctor. More and more parents are following Mrs Murphy's lead and buying supplemental education from quality-controlled tutors. “There is more concern about education than ever before and more parents are paying attention to their children's learning problems,” said Carmel O’Brien, education consultant with Tutor Doctor, “so it is important that this form of supplemental education is managed and structured in a way that parents, students, and teachers can have full confidence in the service.”

Fine Gael Seanad education spokesperson Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has slammed schools which employ retired teachers to provide substitute cover when hundreds of newly qualified teachers are jobless.