Private tutoring has become the most popular job taken by university students, who want to earn money to feed themselves and fund their study.

Private tutoring was refused by many students, because it was considered a hard work. However, the income of tutors has been increasing in accordance with the increasingly high demand for private lessons.

Students spend some hours a week to be able to have the income enough to cover the basic needs in big cities and fund their study. Especially, the income of the students – tutors is even higher than the monthly salary offered to new graduates.

Nguyen Diem My, a third year student of the Hanoi Academy of Journalist and Communication, said that private tutoring is now listed as a fashionable job of the youth.

My plans to become a journalist, but she now gives private lessons in Mathematics and English to the 9th and smaller graders. Though she has not experienced any training course on pedagogical methods, she still can teach her students well.

On summer days, My has four private lessons a week, and each lesson lasts two hours. On average, a student has to pay 120,000 dong for a lesson. As such, My can earn 8 million dong a month from her teaching job.

Meanwhile, in Vietnam, those people who can earn 10 million dong a month are considered high income earners.

Nguyen Cam Nhung, a third year student of the Hanoi University, is giving English lessons to a third grader. However, Nhung said, it’s not easy to find learners nowadays. She has to contact job centers or post ad pieces on some education websites to introduce herself and the job she wants to take.

If the job centers call Nhung and inform that they can find a good job for her, Nhung would have to pay 50 percent of her income in the first month of working to the centers as the brokerage fee. In general, Nhung had to wait one or two weeks only to get a job, but sometimes, she had to wait several months long.

Nhung said she is satisfied with her job. With three lessons a week, she can earn 5 million dong a month – the desirably high income for Nhung’s relatives, who are living in the countryside.

The job not reserved for choosy people

Most university students choose the job for summer days, because the job does not take much time (2 hours at maximum for every lesson). By giving private tutoring, they not only can earn money, but also can spend time relaxing or going out.

However, it seems that the job does not fit everybody. Duong My Linh, a third year student of the Diplomatic Academy, only has one private lesson a week. Previously, Linh had more learners, but one of them refused to continue the learning, because his parent could not afford the high fee of 150,000 dong per lesson.

However, Linh still has been insisting on the high tuition, because she believes that a student of the Diplomatic Academy has better knowledge than the students from other schools, thus deserving better pay.

The students from pedagogical schools prove to be the ones who can most easily find learners, because they learn pedagogical methods at the school and they have more teaching experiences.

Mai Hoa, a second year student of the Mathematics Faculty of the Hanoi University of Education, now earns 140,000 dong from every lesson. Though the required tuition is relatively high, her high teaching quality has satisfied parents. Therefore, she is busy all the day with busy teaching schedule.

Source: Dan Viet/ VNN