Tutoring

Our free online tutoring program helps students excel in their studies! We connect students experiencing barriers to education with high-achieving, recent high-school and university graduates.

Free support to get you to university

Want a little extra help with your subjects?

ITE pairs students in years 7–12 who face barriers to education with a university tutor for free 1:1 support. All our tutors are high-achieving, recent high-school or university graduates.

Tutoring basics:

  • Available to year 7–12 students in NSW & QLD who face barriers to higher education

  • Free

  • Online delivery

  • 1 hour per week or fortnight

  • 1:1 support

Tutoring may be available for any subject across the year 7–12 curriculum. When you apply, please choose the subjects (up to 3) you require the most help with.

All our tutors hold valid Working With Children Checks (WWCCs). However, they are not professionally trained to work with children that require specialised educational support for high needs. Consequently, we are unable to provide support for students with severe learning difficulties.

“[ITE] is probably the best learning space I have ever had from all tutoring centres… This place is amazing and meets my needs. I am very happy that this tutoring is a thing.”

— 2024 ITE tutoring student

Eligibility

You may be eligible for free tutoring through your school or personal circumstance.

To receive free tutoring at ITE you must:

  • Live in NSW or QLD; and

  • Be in year 7–12.

You must also meet at least 1 of the following criteria:

  • Connected with ITE through one of our partner organisations;

  • Live, or attend a public high school, in an area that:

  • Experience disadvantage accessing higher education or uncommon hardship, which includes, but is not limited to, if you:

    • Are the first person in your immediate or extended family (eg, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents) who intends to to go university,

    • Identify as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person,

    • Are experiencing financial hardship (eg, Centrelink), or your immediate family (eg, parents) are,

    • Live in social or public housing, or

    • Are a recent (past 5 years) migrant or refugee from a non-English-speaking background.

Students who have connected with ITE through the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre are also eligible.

If you’re unsure whether you meet these criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway.

“We feel so lucky and grateful to have access to a service we could never afford financially. Our daughter entered her HSC exams in a much better place academically and emotionally after having the benefit of the ITE program.”

— Parent of 2024 ITE tutoring student

Become a tutor

We’re always looking for new tutors! If you’re a high-achieving recent high-school or university graduate and want to help future university students, we’d love to hear from you!