Editorial standards
Who writes our content
TutorNetwork is an introduction service, not a tutoring provider. Our guides and region pages are written by the TutorNetwork editorial team — the same people who run the platform. We are not tutors ourselves; where we write about teaching approaches, exam formats or preparation strategies, we do so as informed researchers drawing on official sources, not as practitioners.
Tutoring companies and agencies on our named partner list are our commercial partners. Their expertise informs our understanding of the market, but they do not write, commission or approve our editorial content, and they do not influence our factual claims.
How we research
Every factual claim in a TutorNetwork guide is checked against at least one official primary source before the page is published. Our sources include exam boards (GL Assessment, CEM, AQA, OCR, Edexcel/Pearson, WJEC), Ofqual, GOV.UK, the Welsh Government, local authority admissions guidance, and the websites of named schools or selective-admissions consortiums.
We cite those sources directly on guide and region pages so readers can verify claims themselves. Where a claim is school-specific, year-specific or otherwise subject to change — for example an individual school's admission score threshold — we say so clearly and advise you to confirm it with the school or authority directly.
Where we cannot find official confirmation of a detail, we hedge explicitly rather than assert. We do not publish a page when its core factual claims cannot clear our own accuracy checks.
Our commitments
We hold ourselves to the following standards on every page we publish:
- No fabricated content. We never invent statistics, school names, pass-mark figures, quotes, author names or reviewer credits. If a figure exists in our copy, it came from a verifiable source.
- No inflated authority signals. We do not add fake FAQ schema, artificial "expert reviewed" badges, or other E-E-A-T theatre. Our authority comes from sourced facts, not decorative markup.
- Evergreen content kept current. Exam formats, selective admissions rules and curriculum details change. We review and update guides when authoritative changes occur and display the date each guide was last reviewed.
- Transparent hedging. When official guidance varies by area, changes annually, or is not confirmed for the current year, we say so in the text rather than stating a false certainty.
Expert review
Our current guides are researched and written by the TutorNetwork editorial team using the primary sources described above. Named review by qualified subject-matter experts — for example registered teachers or exam-board specialists — is something we are actively working towards as our editorial team grows. We will update this page when that process is in place. Until then, we do not claim a named expert has reviewed our content.
Corrections and feedback
If you spot an error, an outdated figure, or a claim that should be better sourced, please get in touch at contact@tutornetwork.co.uk. We take accuracy seriously and will investigate and correct material errors promptly.