Private Tuition Agency
About Us
PRIVATE TUITION AGENCY
Why Academic Success Achievers?
We provide tutors who are professional, committed and methodical in their teaching. By putting our applicants through a rigorous and extensive interview process, we ensure that only the best tutors are hired to assist students to achieve academic success.
ASA was founded on the belief and personal experience that has proven time and time again that one-on-one tutoring is a uniquely powerful way to learn.
Our mission statement has always been to help our students perform at their best, building long-term academic resilience and life-long intellectual curiosity.
The tutors we represent are dedicated to their work, and receive outstanding evaluations from their students. After a strenuous screening process, we tend to choose intelligent and likeable tutors who enjoy relating to, and setting high standards for, their students. While it is a truism that intelligence does not make you a good tutor, we like tutors to be passionate and knowledgeable about their subjects so that they can field the most curious of questions from their students. Self-confidence and inspiration derive from such strong relationships we feel.
Although tutoring has often been held in high esteem for assisting students in understanding schoolwork in an environment that creates a more approachable and successful communication system, private tutoring is often viewed as a luxury that can only be afforded by the rich.
We abide by principles that not only help foster successful academic development, but also provide an affordable, quality service.
- Tutoring should be used judiciously. Families place a lot of trust in us when they ask how much tutoring their child needs. We believe that a tutor should not upset the balance in a child’s life between work and play.
- Tutors should be a victim of their own success. Successful tutors help their pupils to become academically self-reliant.
- Tutoring should be transparent. When it’s appropriate, we encourage tutors to coordinate their work with their pupils’ schoolteachers and other educational professionals.
- Tutoring should not be the preserve of the elite. Not only do we provide an affordable service, we also host a number of charitable efforts that bring tutoring and further education knowledge to students in disadvantaged communities that have previously not been afforded the service and information.
Shailesh Bhanjee, Founder & Director
A Bachelor of Science graduate in Applied Mathematics from the University of Pretoria, Shailesh’s innate knowledge of Maths and the Sciences meant that he was often called upon to help students excel in the three hardest subjects that South Africans have to undertake. This resulted in tutoring knowledge and assistance that spanned over 7 years.
Having helped numerous students and worked in a few tutoring agencies, he noticed the need for a more invasive selection process as well as more integrity within the service provided by most agencies and tutors alike. This prompted his desire to start an agency that not only focused on each individual student’s style of learning to help them grasp the information taught, but also stood by principles that ensured that students, parents and tutors were treated and provided with the respect, accountability and transparency that the relationship requires.
As a Golden Key International Honour Society laureate, Shailesh understands the amount of hard work and dedication that is needed to excel in academics at the highest level and it is this passion that he wishes to instill in all the students that place their trust in ASA to help them achieve and exceed their academic goals.
DesRay Ngoasheng, Managing Director & Head of Client Management
DesRay is known as the muscle behind ASA. Not only does she manage the day-to-day running of the company, she also liaises with clients, students and tutors to ensure a smooth execution of all plans and systems. A Bachelor of Arts graduate in English Studies from the University of Pretoria, DesRay also has over 5 years of tutoring under her belt. She has worked within the community outreach projects of companies to provide tutoring to various students where she’s been able to assist hundreds of high school students.
A previous job in Marketing where she excelled in the project coordination and management of various campaigns has helped her hone her skills as an effective organizer and manager. This work ethic is what has helped her push ASA to the success it has become. In her free time she writes for an online fitness publication and shares her healthy lifestyle with a number of followers.
They are such an amazing, hard working team of people who's only interest is to make sure that your child gets the best help and assistance possible. Thank you for all your time and effort.
Nathan Duff PARENT