More on Outsourced Tutoring
Here is another interesting article on online tutoring outsourced to India. (Just as a total aside, it’s equally fascinating to me that it’s from the Middle East Times. It really is a small world, isn’t it?) It doesn’t offer a lot of new info over previous stories, but it has some interesting comments from the proprietor of one of the companies.
I’m trying to figure out the math in a way that isn’t really cynical, though. The tutors are paid $155 a month (if the article is correct), but the students are paying $20-40 per hour. I know there are software, telecommunications, and other kinds of overhead costs, but if the average tutor is supporting 40 students as stated in the article, then even if they only do a ridiculously low effort of one hour per student per month at the $20 per hour end of the range, that’s still $800 in monthly revenue per tutor. That’s a lot of overhead.