What will happen to the HSC tutoring industry in 2018-19

[bundahboy]

With the significant syllabus changes to come into effect from 2018-19, what will happen to the leviathan of a tutoring industry that revolves around the HSC curriculum? I imagine a lot of tutors and their firms have spent many years accumulating expertise on how to play the current syllabus, and have become very effective at doing so.

Do you guys think the changes will dent the impact of the tutoring industry considering their lack of experience in catering to the new syllabi?

[brenden]

I think the smarter tutors will be all over the changes - ATAR Notes are already preparing materials for the new changes. It will cull some of the herd probably - the unprepared ones, but I think many of the smarter operators will be all over it.

Very, very interesting question though. What do you think will happen?

[jamonwindeyer]

With the significant syllabus changes to come into effect from 2018-19, what will happen to the leviathan of a tutoring industry that revolves around the HSC curriculum? I imagine a lot of tutors and their firms have spent many years accumulating expertise on how to play the current syllabus, and have become very effective at doing so.

Do you guys think the changes will dent the impact of the tutoring industry considering their lack of experience in catering to the new syllabi?

This is a really interesting question and I've thought a lot about it.

Biggest Impact: 2018 HSC Graduates won't be able to tutor those subjects straight out of high school (more the maths and sciences where the changes are more drastic). They won't know the content, to advertise themselves as experts on a new syllabus would be disingenuous unless they spend the summer studying the new content. So you'll see less new "freelance" tutors than usual, as a start.

This ties into Brenden's comment above - The smarter ones will be all over it. The teachers who also tutor will have a new point of differentiation to justify their increased cost, as will tutoring companies who have the funds and expertise to train their tutors in the new content (ideally they would have done the content in some way at university).

It's a bit of a reset button though isn't it! Clean slate, puts everyone back to an even playing field - We're working hard to be prepared for the changes

[bundahboy]

Yeah, my first thought was that it'd be impossible for most tutors to sustain themselves because of the lack of anecdotal experience as to what works/doesn't work with a new syllabus. As brenden and jamon said I do think the more dedicated/smarter tutors will get across the new content, but my gut feel is that the changes generate a bit of chaos in terms of knowing what approaches and strategies will be successful.

On the other hand, I reckon good materials and resources for the new syllabus will be harder to come by for the first couple of years. So perhaps having access to a tutor that knows what he/she is doing will be even more valuable.