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The booming world of specialised private education for super-rich

Offer of £2m to tutor architecture student is latest sign of a new frontier in achieving a competitive advantage

Wanted: part-time tutor for a budding young architect student. Potential pay: over £2m.

Welcome to the booming world of specialised private education for the super-rich where earnings for tutoring, even when moonlighting, now dwarf conventional salaries.

$190 an hour for an Arabic speaker to tutor three children aged seven and under until the end of the summer in homes in Ibiza, the Cotswolds and Surrey.

$180,000 a year and a private villa to tutor three children in French, reading and maths in Djibouti.

$360,000 a year for two tutors to travel with two boys who are part of a family “involved in motor sports, equestrian sports, and art, at a very high level”. Prospective tutors are told one boy’s “passion for Lego” highlights “a keen analytical mind”.

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