We were lucky enough to hire a home tutor from Tutors from England for our son who was about to go to Cambridge but had never been to England. 

Surendra had passed his entrance exams, but felt utterly unprepared for the new experience of going to Cambridge; he did not know what to expect when he got there. What would the other students be like? What was life at Cambridge like? What was expected of a student at Cambridge? What was social life like at Cambridge University? How would my son fit into English life? All these questions and many others Michael answered for my son. He lived with our family for three months and, of course, it was a learning experience for him too – to find out what life was like living in an Indian family, but the tutor was very sophisticated and ‘a man of the world’. He fitted into our family very well and was frankly a delight. 

He did help Surendra with his studies in areas that Surandra thought he was behind in, but I feel that the greatest benefit for Surendra was that he was able to go to Cambridge with more confidence about what to expect when he got there. He taught him how most undergraduates dressed at Cambridge, what they did in their free time, what their relationships with their teachers were and what was expected of Surendra. 

Michael taught him all the nuances of living and studying at Cambridge and we are very grateful to him for that. Michael also gave Surendra introductions to some of his friends in England, as Michael thought it very important that Surendra mix with English people and not just people from South Asia. And indeed Surendra went to stay in the vacations with different families whom Michael had introduced him to. 

His tutor’s report at the end of his first term at Cambridge read “Surendra has been a great asset to the freshman of his year, as he felt so at home here one would have thought that he had been to an English public school”. Thank you, Tutors from England. SVP