One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Gary will be happy to arrange your first Business Studies lesson.
Gary
One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Gary will be happy to arrange your first Business Studies lesson.
- Hourly rate £55
- Response Time 3h
- Number of students 50+
£55/hr
- Business Studies
- Business strategy
- Management and Organization
- Business Analysis
- Administration
Outstanding results for Undergraduate, A Level, GCSE Business students. 25 years classroom experience, 1000+ hrs online teaching. A level Examiner, Teacher trained, DBS approved, MBA holder. Exam pre
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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Gary will be happy to arrange your first Business Studies lesson.
About Gary
*Management/Business undergraduate courses *Specialist A/AS level + GCSE + specialist experience supporting dyslexic students
A level Business Examiner familiar with most exam bodies (AQA, Edexcel,Cambridge etc), 1000+ hours of online tutoring experience. I specialise in improving grades, essay writing skills and examination preparation, building your confidence and helping you realise your potential. My work with business/management undergraduates embraces a wide range of topics and includes research/assignment/project support which includes literature review, analysis, editing and proofreading. Specialist areas include marketing/finance/strategy.
I am passionate about what I do and enjoy the process of supporting students' to succeed. Many past students have stayed with me from AS level to completion of their degrees such is the level of trust they have.
Past students include undergraduates from the Universities of: London/Manchester/Leeds/Loughborough/Bristol/Brighton/Liverpool and Northumbria. I have successfully prepared students for interview at some of the best universities in the world including Oxford and Cambridge (Economics and Management, 2022 success). I offer specialist support for dyslexic students who may need additional planning/sequencing/organisation help and have substantial experience doing so. Current students expect to achieve 2:1 or 1st class degrees.
My work also includes providing support for individuals, corporate organisations, (famous football clubs) and UK Government Departments.
I am an MBA holder/international business teacher-trainer for a world renowned university, with over 25 years classroom (A level/CIM/BtEC/Degree) and senior management experience gained in the UK and China.
My academic roles include Assistant Principal at one of the best A level colleges in China and at Ludlow College, Shropshire. Thus, I bring experience of working with international students whose first language is not English. I have also worked extensively with Chinese students in the UK and in China.
As your tutor I will:
- help you to improve your grades. I have marked 1000s of business exam papers.
- improve your confidence, a critical part of my work with you
- develop your essay writing and critical thinking skills
- undertake to be well prepared and use a variety of teaching approaches to help you realise your potential and be successful
- ensure my skills are constantly updated. I provide training to business teachers across the globe in countries from Africa to the USA.
- be flexible and approachable - I even have a sense of humour!
University :
- Stafordshire University - MBA Business Strategy [Merit Award]
- University of South Wales - Dip CG (Careers Guidance)
- University of Wolverhampton - Cert Education
- Staffordshire University - Business/Finance BA Hons [2:1]
Other Qualifications :
I have worked with the Home Schooling organisation in China where I was a Guest Speaker and trainer. I also worked for Black and Decker and the Linde Corporation as a language/management trainer. I also work with a language school (China) developing learning materials for English language training in Chengdu. I am a guest speaker for Manchester Metropolitan University, business tutor for a well known football club (under 18s squad) and have also worked as an online tutor in Hong Kong (HNC Business) and have recent experience (2020) with the British Council.
About the lesson
- All Levels
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
My sessions are relaxed and focussed upon your needs so my approach will match your particular issues. I start from your current level and build incrementally. This involves identifying what I believe needs to be done, sharing this with you and then helping you to practise the skills critical to your future success. I don't have a 'stock' approach to my sessions, what I do will depend upon what you need, targetted at addressing your particular blocks, misunderstandings or gaps. Every student is different in my experience.
I have a wealth of resources and, as an examiner, I know exactly what a student needs to do to gain marks. I work at your pace but will encourage and motivate you to move beyond your current level.
I specialise in improving exam grades and have lots of experience and success at doing this. If you cannot analyse or evaluate effectively, I will show you how to and when to apply these skills to questions whether you are a GCE student or undergraduate.
In short, my approach aims to help you gain more marks for your hard work! I have marked thousands of exam scripts, this gives me a clear insight into what you need to do to get those better grades, experience that is, in my view, critical to your support and future success.
I train teachers' throughout the world (Africa, USA, Pakistan, China, Indonesia) for a leading UK university.
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Perfect! Communication, understanding and approachability
Perfect! Gary is friendly and very knowledgeable. My daughter enjoyed the lesson.
- Gary's response :Enthusiastic, keen to learn and motivated to do so. We focussed upon exam techniques and how to maximise marks through developed analysis and evaluation, skills that were quickly understood. We need to now apply these techniques to past exam papers, practise the skills so they become instinctive. In order to gain B - A* these skills will have to be evidenced. My feeling is that Maia can do this, she quickly applied her understanding through a series of mini cases, her next step will be to do the same thing with an AQA exam question. A good session, a very able student keen to develop. Gary
Perfect! Gary is a quite experienced tutor for Business Study. He is reliable tutor for the improvement of student's study. Would recommend him to anyone needs support.
- Gary's response :Todays session examined various topics that need to be addressed and prepared for by Gao. We looked at the process of critical thinking and how to demonstrate understanding, analysis and evaluation, all skills that will be assessed and graded by his university. I also discussed 'citation' what it is and how to use the Harvard citation system, again Gao will be expected to use citation and will be rewarded for doing so so this is in preparation. Lastly I introduced him to the fundamentals of marketing, this is one of his units so he needs to be able to deal with the challenges and understand the component parts and how this all fits together. What is becoming obvious is (a) he is well motivated and has the intellectual ability to do this work but (b) he is challenged by the technical nature of business, it has its own language which is additional to the everyday words - this is an issue for UK students as well but to a lesser extent. He needs to extend his vocabulary to include the specific language used because his future essay arguments will require this - he has the ability I am sure but starting to prepare now will be of benefit later. I will continue to use the terms he needs so I will try to reinforce his understanding but I suggest he does the same thing as he is going to be faced by a lot of new terminology quite soon. Today we looked at Apple products in China and the new competition/marketing - he dealt with the analysis very well, impressive I thought given his starting point.
Perfect! I am extremely grateful to Gary for his invaluable assistance and guidance with my recent essay. I was impressed by his genuine desire to assist in achieving success.
I had a great experience with him as he patiently addressed all my inquiries and offered valuable insights. Throughout the process, it was clear that he had a wealth of experience and a profound understanding of the subject.
I particularly appreciate a great communication, availability and constructive feedback provided. I must say, his encouragement played a crucial role in enhancing my confidence.
I am incredibly grateful to have Gary as my mentor and look forward to the opportunity to continue working with him.- Gary's response :Thanks for the review Margo, I appreciate this. By way of my feedback, It is a pleasure working with you as you are clear about the fact that you want to get the best from yourself and are not afraid to work to achieve this objective - commitment is all. Your style is developing, which I would expect at this stage but it is clear that you have strong academic potenital, grasp ideas quickly and put into effect advice you deem relevant. I think you tend to underestimate your own strength, you are clearly able, have intellectual depth and strong underpinning skills. I would expect, given what I have seen, heard and read, that your development will continue on an upward trajectory: it's a steep learning curve you are on for sure but you have the tenacity and intelligence to get to the top! Be guided by the feedback from your lecturers, ask for clarification when you need it and I am sure your academic journey will be a fruitful one. I think for the future you need to develop further your sequencing skills as a way of reducing unnecessary editing - plan the route before starting the journey :)
I hope you have found my support useful and look forward to working with you again. Go for it!
Perfect! Gary has been an invaluable help to my daughter, ahead of exams. Despite being very busy, Gary kindly managed to make some time to take my daughter for a number of online lessons and has shared very valuable resources with her. All I can say is that he knows everything you need to know from definitions to exam techniques, has a plethora of useful tips in terms of application and does an amazing job at explaining and clarifying the content. Thank you Gary for your support! I wholeheartedly recommend this tutor!.........By the way, exams went very well!!!
- Gary's response :Rosie is a great student to work with, motivated and wants to develop techniques to help her deal with her exams. I have worked on structure and the assessment objectives and demonstrated how and why marks are awarded which she has now put into practice. I believe her first paper went well so I will be aiming to help her build on this. Gary
Perfect! Gary is a reliable and committed tutor. His teaching method has helped my son excel in his A Level Business exam. Within 2 weeks of tuition, my son moved a grade above his predicted exam grade.
- Gary's response :A significant change in the way Favour approaches question answering - he has quickly developed his awareness of the process of examining, what examiners are looking for and what will get him marks. He has the skills to analyse and evaluate and clearly demonstrated them during our session. I went through his written work with him and highlighted where he would get marks and why. Immediately he has raised his game - his grades will improve if he follows through with the approach I am coaching him to adopt as I am sure he will. I expect his confidence to increase as he starts to see what he has to do to get A grades - work he produced today was of this calibre and I fed this back to him. There are a few gaps in his knowledge which we can plug but he is a capable, analytical thinker and very receptive to new ideas. Gary
Perfect! Gary really cares for his students and makes sure they understand the reasoning behind the exam system and how to improve the scores.
- Gary's response :Hi Marc, the session I had with Ariana and Hector was helpful. I went through in detail, the results of the work they sent and explained what they needed to do to improve their marks. In particular they had not been shown how to analyse and this was a weakness. I took them through the process and they quickly understood how to develop their analytical writing and thus receive more credit. I need to do the same thing with their evaluative skills, the most challenging objective. The good news is that they are both keen to learn, applied themselves well to my advice and seem well motivated to improve. Thus we should be able to make fast progress. It was a bit of a 'full on' session, a lot to get through and a lot for them to absorb but my view is that they now have a much clearer understanding of what they should be doing. A pleasure working with them. If you have any queries then I am happy to address them. Kind regards, Gary
Perfect! Gary is extremely organised, and his approach to tutoring is solid, from a goal setting but more importantly, a plan setting perspective. He explained where the issues/lack of understanding were with my son, and designed a plan to precisely mitigate those, and prepare my son for his GCSEs.
My son has been seeing the benefits of Gary's tutoring, in all tests and mock-exams - I highly recommend Gary!- Gary's response :OK, as promised my powerpoint presentation. My email gary.hurlstone@gmail.com Please let me have your list of topics when ready. I will download past papers from NCFE and we can use them to ready you for your exams (mock and final) Also I can provide guidance for your assignment which you then can use to develop your ideas - remember the analysis of this is crucial to the grades. We have agreed a baseline of a grade 6, better if we can get the development down faster. Your assignment is worth 60% of this grade so this is a crucial decider in the final grade you get. You have clearly demonstrated your ability to analyse, impressive I thought for your first session. A lot of your issues seem to stem from lack of understanding (knowledge) which I can plug, most marks are awarded for application, analysis and evaluation so tha'ts what we also need to work on. I hope you have enjoyed your first session. Regards, Gary
Perfect! Gary is supporting my daughter where the school teacher is failing her. According to my daughter he is good at explaining things. I know her stress levels have reduced massively and she is feeling more confident in achieving at least some grade in her A levels
- Gary's response :A fact gathering session to begin with but then we explored the assessment objectives and how they can be met. My intention is to support Matilda to follow a structured response, one that will focus on getting marks and reducing the amount to be written. A lot of what is written by students is often discursive, interesting but sadly does not gain marks. The aim of what I am doing is to provide a clear map for Matilda to follow, one where she knows what needs to be done and sticks to doing this. I will need to have a look at previous marked assignments to get a sense of how she writes and structures her work. In addition many of the concepts can be broken down and explained, this should clear up some of the vagueness she experiences at school. My view overall is that Matilda can and does grasp concepts quickly IF they are explained properly. She is intelligent and seemed to grasp ideas quickly - we can work on getting concepts embedded and addressing the time constraint issues. I found the whole process straightforward in the sense that Matilda is open to suggestions to improve, she is clear about what she needs to do to achieve these improvements, we share the same goals. I hope this helps. I enjoyed the session.
Perfect! 5 stars
Gary is an expert. He is able to help the student to get to know more about the subject, help my son to achieve the score (target), be patience & encourage the student. Thanks so much Gary, it's good to have you!
Subject : Business Studies
Outcome : positivePerfect! Amazing tutor
I was looking for a tutor to prepare me for my oxford em interview last year. We went through mock interview questions and strategies! I got accepted (surprisingly) and I am really grateful to have Gary as my tutor!
Subject : Management and Organization
Outcome : pass the uni interview- Gary's response :Thank you Shangyu, I hope you enjoy your time at Oxford and very well done!
Perfect! Subject : Business Studies
Perfect! Very patient and understanding teacher
Ever since I first messaged Gary, he has been very helpful and dedicated lots of time to understand what it is I have needed help with. I am currently working on a research project, and even though my project topic is not related to business management - Gary has helped me to understand how to properly approach a piece of research. We started with the literature review which I was initially struggling with, but now I understand clearly how to approach it. Gary made it very clear that he was going to help me achieve the best grade possible and has made me feel more confident about my work. He has put a lot of time, even outside of lesson hours to research my project topic and then look over the work I have done so far to help me improve it. I am dyslexic and so sometimes I don't understand certain things straight away, but Gary has been very patient and understanding.
Subject : Management and Organization
Outcome : I am now more confident about my work and I am learning how to improve my skills when it comes to completing a research projectPerfect! Great Teacher
Helps breakdown difficult subjects in a very easy way to understand.
Subject : Business Studies
Outcome : Was excellent help for Financial Reporting.Perfect! Business!
I am from china and currently studying in uni at UK. I have a strong language barrier which I'd found was too difficult for me to prepare the exams by myself, so I asked helps from Gary.
The test was about writing management essays which needed to include KAAE Pattern. Over a short time, Gary helped me go through the KAAE pattern and taught me critically, like how to analyse. (which was really helpful) We went through around 10 essays and Gary spent extra time to help me revise the essays. As a result, I did well in the exam and was really confident when I was writing the essays during the exams.
Gary is really patient, passionate and knowledgeable. Whenever you don’t understand something, he will stop and explain it to you until you fully understood. Moreover, he is always well-prepared. He analyses the materials I’ve sent and brings them to the lesson. Even after class, he will provide you a feedback which helps you to get better.
I have to say that according to my recent experience, I would highly recommend Gary as your tutor. And I am also looking forward to have more lessons with Gary.
Subject : Economics
Outcome : Passed the exams successfully.- Gary's response :Diligent, highly motivated student who is passionate about improving the quality of his work and works hard to do so. In a relatively short period of time he has developed both analytical and evaluative skills and his grades have consequently soared. He has been offered a place at his chosen university. Excellent
Perfect! Just what my son needed
Gary has been that elusive needle in the haystack; the one we all search for as the perfect tutor for our children.
I was initially reluctant to engage an on-line tutor, preferring face to face, however Covid forced by hand.
I am very pleased that it did & Gary was able to squeeze us into his schedule.
Gary quickly built rapport, identified my son's needs, how he learnt best & addressed the gaps in his knowledge. He has also given guidance on structure & techniques, something my son struggles with under pressure.
As well as the theory & education side, he has boosted his confidence in both his own ability & himself.
Business A level is tricky when you have not studied the subject at GCSE & the majority of the class have the foundations.
Now it is my son's strongest subject, one that he hopes to read at University.
Subject : Business Studies
Outcome : We will continue to work together until A level exams & I will report back.Perfect! Brilliant Teacher
I contacted Gary unconfident as I was receiving poor grades in business at school compared to my other subjects and worried I was not going to get the grade I needed for university. However, Gary taught me more about exam technique in a '1hour' lesson than I have understood in the past 2 years of learning Business A-level. Although my exams have now been cancelled, I would have most definately felt confident going into my exam after just a few lessons.Thank you!
Subject : Business Studies
Outcome : I am now more confidence in tackling questions in all my A-level subjects not just Business.- Gary's response :Thank you, Jade I really appreciate your comments and glad I could help. Gary
Perfect! Very good teacher
Gary has helped my son catching up on his business studies after he swooped from economics before Christmas, we will carry on with Gary as it really has a positive effect on my sons business studies.
Gary gives a feed back after every lesson so I know what they worked on.
Subject : Business Studies
Outcome : Caught up on 6 weeks business study, becoming more confident with the topic.Perfect! Highly recommend
Gary has been tutoring my son for a little over a month and he is excellent. My son’s confidence is growing each week and he looks forward to his on-line sessions. He will continue to work with Gary until his exams next summer. I would highly recommend him.
Subject : Business Studies
Outcome : Still working toward A levels in the summerPerfect! Knowledgable and incredibly helpful tutor
Gary tutored me throughout my A-level business and is now helping me during the first year of my Marketing degree. He has given me a lot of valuable support in regards to structuring my essays better and getting into the deeper analysis and evaluation of my arguments which I had previously struggled with. Gary has a great teaching style and a lot of knowledge which makes it easier to have meaningful discussions with someone who understands what I am studying. Gary is very passionate in his teaching and I would highly recommend him!
Subject : Marketing
Outcome : My writing has improved significantly and am consequently receiving higher grades- Gary's response :Thanks Tayla - always a pleasure working with you and I appreciate your kind words Gary
Perfect! Dedicated and informative
I contacted Gary with an emergency request for a lesson as my son had got stuck on a piece of homework. He was so dedicated and informative that we now have him every week. He is great online, which is so easy to use, and my son actually looks forward to his lessons. He is building up knowledge and covering the techniques needed to pass the exam question. He always sends me a detailed email of what they covered and details what extra work my son could be looking at. Your child will build confidence in the subject with his help. I can highly recommend him.
Subject : Business Studies
Outcome : More confidence and better understandingPerfect! Reference for Mr. Gary Hurlstone
Gary has been a great support to me as I prepare to write A-level Business Studies. I have a good understanding of business but I am not always able to clearly articulate my written answers in an exam environment. Gary has provided me with structure and techniques on the best way to express myself. I have definitely improved the quality of my work and even my teacher has noticed.
Gary is always well prepared and punctual. I find his manner motivating and he pushes me to do better. He sets me really relevant tasks that complement what I am doing at school, I would highly recommend him.
Subject : Business Studies
Outcome : Gary has given me a lot more confidence, and has helped me develop both my understanding and written skills for answering essays.Perfect! Subject : Business Studies
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My son has been tutored by Gary for 5 years from sixth form to the end of his degree! Gary has been amazing, growing my sons confidence and helping him deliver his work to a high standard, in terms of presentation, sequencing and analysis and understands the need for citation and strong reasoned argument!
Gary has been very patient but pushed my son when he felt he was not working to the best of his ability.
I’ve overheard many happy chatting moments between the 2 of them and I know he will be missed now the school/university work is finished.
You will be lucky to have Gary as a Tutor!
Thank you Gary you’ve been a superstarGary has been a very positive support for my son, studying A level business studies. Always really encouraging and clear - this has really helped his confidence.
Gary has helped me underline the key things of analytical skills needed for the tests. He also gave me a variety of examples so that I could understand the theory more clearly and made the sessions more interesting. I was really enjoying the last 5 sessions with him
When Mr. Hurlstone worked in a prestigious school in China, I was his assistant. Besides the fact that I have obtained rewarding working experience from him, he undoubtedly is an excellent teacher, pretty good at guiding his students and influencing them both on knowledge and life wisdom. Mr. Hurlstone has teaching experience of numerous years you even cannot believe. Therefore, if you are fortunate to have him, you will definitely get what you want.
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