Founder of Green Tutors | Host of the STEM Stories Podcast | Creator of the STEM Educators’ Academy
Georgina Green is an award-nominated STEM education strategist, speaker, and founder of Green Tutors — the UK’s leading specialist tuition business connecting STEM learning to real-world industry.
In 2024, she was shortlisted for Professional Tutor of the Year and Green Tutors for Tuition Business of the Year at the National Tutoring Awards hosted by The Tutors’ Association. Green Tutors was shortlisted again in 2025.
A Forensic Scientist by background, Georgina has worked across sectors including Bristol Water, NHS Blood & Transplant, and GlaxoSmithKline, as well as in the Hertfordshire Police Control Room and the Cambridge Covid Diagnostic Testing Centre.
Her diverse professional journey fuels her mission: to help students and educators see how science, maths, and technology truly shape the world around us.
I am available for a limited number of speaking engagements and workshops each year, focused on STEM education, connecting with STEM industry, learning under pressure, and the responsible use of emerging technologies in education.
To ensure sessions are high-quality, ethical, and genuinely valuable for audiences, I work within the following professional framework:
Online delivery is my standard format, allowing for focused sessions without the disruption and cost of travel.
All engagements are paid. My work reflects specialist expertise, preparation time, and professional delivery.
In-person events are considered selectively and are priced at a premium to reflect travel, time, and delivery requirements.
I do not offer unpaid or charitable speaking engagements.
Clear expectations are required around audience behaviour, staff presence, and session outcomes to ensure a respectful and effective learning environment.
If your organisation is seeking a thoughtful, evidence-informed speaker who prioritises integrity, clarity, and impact over hype, you’re very welcome to get in touch with details of your event.
Speaking Experience
Georgina is a regular speaker at education events across the UK, with recent engagements including:
National Tutors’ Conference 2025 – “The Future of STEM Education – Trends, Challenges, and Opportuniuties”
MathsConf39 with Complete Maths – “Connecting the Maths Curriculum to the STEM Industry”
Qualified Tutor Membership – “Smarter Systems and Marketing for Tutors”
Qualified Tutor’s Love Tutoring Festival 3 – Host & Panel Lead
STEMpire Festival – Founder & Lead Speaker
STEM Educators’ Academy – Monthly coaching and CPD sessions for tutors
Skyrocket Conference 2023 – Co-host alongside Joanne Kaminski and Michael Gibben
STEM Learning & ELSA Next Generation – School careers and STEM workshops
Georgina brings warmth, clarity, and strategy to every stage. Her talks blend real-world STEM expertise with business insight and are tailored to each audience.
For Schools & Students
How Maths Powers the Modern World
STEM Careers You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet)
From Curiosity to Career: Turning STEM Passion into Purpose
For Tutors & Educators
Building a Profitable STEM Education Business
Systems that Scale: Smarter STEM Tuition in the Digital Age
Confidence, Connection & Communication in STEM Education
For Organisations & Events
Female Representation in STEM
The Future of STEM Learning & the AI Revolution
Why Book Georgina
✔ A unique blend of STEM industry and education experience ✔ A dynamic, compassionate speaker who connects with diverse audiences ✔ Delivers actionable inspiration — attendees leave with ideas they can immediately use ✔ Available for keynotes, panels, podcasts, and workshops (in person or online)
Georgina is available for keynotes, panels, and workshops in 2025. To discuss your event, email info@greentutors.co.uk or complete the form below.
Tutoring is becoming more widespread, and it’s a wonderful thing to see. I have seen a corresponding growth in resources, tools, and training for personal tutors. Alongside this, it can be a challenge for a parent to connect with a suitable tutor as I see requests for a tutor inundated with a variety of offers as soon as they are shared. How can parents choose the right tutor for their child and know that their investment will pay off?
Skills Verification
There are no qualifications required to be a tutor, and this is one of the main qualms in choosing a tutor. The usual response to this is to choose a qualified teacher. While this means that they are training in pedagogy it does not mean that they are qualified to tutor. The two are different specialisms, and it is well worth digging deeper than this.
Many parents are unaware that there is in fact a Qualification for Tutors available from Qualified Tutor. This covers:
Unit 1: CPD Safeguarding
Unit 2: Relationship Matters
Unit 3: The Learning Loop
Unit 4: Barriers for Learning: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Mental Health
Unit 5: Powerful Feedback
The training is specifically focused on one to one or small group tuition, which is a different skill to classroom teaching.
All of the Green Tutors team are provided with this training. We also contribute to the training and discussions in building resources for tutors with Qualified Tutor.
Alongside this training, Qualified Tutor provide Skills Audits to confirm that tutors have the required subject, examination, and curriculum knowledge to support their students. This verification from an external training provider can give you absolute confidence to choose a tutor qualified in what they offer.
Safety First
Working in the private sector also means there is no requirement for safeguarding or criminal records checks before someone can start working as a tutor. This is something that professional tutors are well aware of and take seriously, and I encourage you to ask for proof of a DBS certificate and Safeguarding training.
The Tutors Association is a professional membership body for tutors providing criminal records checks and a code of conduct for tutors. All tutors signed up to this organisation have agreed to a code of conduct which requires them to practise safe and responsible tutoring. This is something that TTA takes seriously and any tutor found not to be holding to this will have their membership revoked.
Ask to see a DBS certificate (Disclosure and Barring Service) and Safeguarding Training certificate issued within the last 12 months before scheduling any appointments with your potential tutor. This is something that all Green Tutors have and yet no parent has ever asked me to share them in all of my time tutoring (since 2011). This simple step can help you to identify a professional tutor.
Community Referrals
Those tutors most committed to professional development and responsible tutoring are part of an online tutoring community. There are many, including the Love Tutoring Community, Tutors Need Tutors, and the Tutors Learning Network. I am a contributing member of all of these communities (and founder of Tutors Need Tutors) and have learned much more through the connections these have allowed with other tutors than in any of my previous training. While community is not a requirement of a professional tutor, it is certainly a green flag for responsible tutoring. Being able to choose a tutor referred to you by an existing tutor in these communities should give you even more confidence in their standard of tutoring.
Choose a Responsible Tutor
While anyone can set themselves up as a tutor, responsible tutoring shows and will be reflected in their reputation and practices.
Does your tutor communicate with you exactly what to expect from lessons?
Do they support your child with their studies outside of lessons, and encourage them to build independence?
Are they helping to identify goals for their progress, and encouraging a positive attitude to learning?
Responsible tutoring ultimately leaves the tutor redundant as a sign of success. We aim for our students to not need us anymore, and the sooner that can happen, the better we have done our job.
The long term pay off from this is that clients will sing our praises and will be happy to refer us to their friends.
If your tutor is not able to share stories and referrals from happy customers despite claiming to have experience in the industry, there is likely a reason for this.
This is not to say that you can’t trust a new tutor. They will also be learning as they go, but their commitment to responsible tutoring can easily be demonstrated by any of the previous points made – community membership, safeguarding training, DBS certificates, and relevant qualifications.
Specialism
While there are many qualified, responsible tutors, we are all different. Each tutor will offer a different service, a different relationship, and a different journey for your child. You should look for those with a specialist interest in the tuition you need. There are 11+ tutors, exam skills coaches, STEM tutors, SEND tutors, retired teachers, student tutors, dyslexia and dyscalculia specialists, teachers turned tutors, and many more.
Who is the best fit for your child?
What do they need?
Rates
“How much do I charge for tutoring?” is a question I see asked pretty much weekly. There isn’t an answer for that question. Much like everything else in the private sector, it tends to increase with qualifications, experience, and the fullness of your calendar.
It is important to know what your budget can stretch to, as tutoring is often a long term commitment. You get what you pay for, but if you are happy to invest in a student for long term support, it can be worthwhile for your child to grow with them.
The below is a very rough idea of the sorts of prices for one to one tutoring in the UK.
Green Tutors pay scale
If you’re looking to connect with a tutor, a great place to start is the Qualified Tutor Accredited Tutor Directory. All of the tutors in this directory have been assessed against the International Tutoring Framework, and have been found to meet the gold standard for tutoring businesses committed to delivering the highest quality tuition.
When you picture your child working with a tutor, what does it look like? Do you picture them at the kitchen table with a man in a tweed jacket? Or have you considered the many benefits of group tuition? All too often group tuition is overlooked as the low-cost alternative to individual tuition, but it offers so much more than that and I’d like to share those benefits with you today.
Group tuition (Canva image)
What does group tuition look like?
Our group classes are delivered online, to make it easier for your child to attend. They’re usually small groups of 2-5 students on a Zoom call together, all working at the same or similar levels on the same subject. The students are assessed to make sure that this is the case, and the group is well matched.
The lesson will be delivered and the task set as a group, but feedback can be shared with each individual student as they’re working, and questions can be asked in private to allow less confident students to participate.
For those students not able to attend a particular lesson, everything is recorded and shared to work through in their own time, and there is built in accountability to make sure that they are participating and benefiting.
According to a study by the Education Endowment Foundation, a charity focused on raising pupil attainment and closing the disadvantage gap in education, small group tuition can boost learning by an additional 4 months over the course of a year. Read more here.
Shared accountability
So many times in my life when I’ve been working towards a ‘stretch’ goal (something that pushes me out of my comfort zone) I’ve struggled to get there on my own.
I’ve had the best success when learning in a small group environment. Like when I joined a Personal Training group for women with three members.
Despite not being a morning person, and HATING going into the gym, I got up every weekday morning at 6am for several months and went to the gym with these three women.
I did’t want to let them down, or be the one that dropped out. The group environment added an extra layer of accountability. It kept me focused and so I worked much harder than I would have on my own.
Moral support
Everyone has bad days. On those days we can easily forget all of the successes, all of the hard work, and every time we’ve got it right. The cloud descends and suddenly everything is awful and we’re totally incapable. In our own minds.
And it can feel awkward working with a coach or teacher who is an expert in the very thing I’m finding difficult. So it becomes too easy to feel like I’m just not good at it and to give up.
When you experience those days with others who are at the same point in their journey, they can be on hand to remind you that you’re just having a bad day, it’s temporary, and don’t give up.
What’s more, being the person who gets to deliver that message to someone else is incredibly empowering for students, and helps them to believe it about themselves too.
Confidence building
In a similar way, group tuition can build your own confidence in your abilities, as you’re able to progress alongside your peers rather than at the hands of an ‘expert’.
While I discourage students to compare themselves to others as we’re on our own path, it is enlightening to see how others struggle where they breeze through, and vice versa. On the same journey there are many branched paths, and we’ll stumble in different places, and soar in different places. The group environment allows students to learn about their own strengths and even support others along the way. There is immense value in that for their confidence building.
Competitiveness
Even the meekest students have a competitive streak. I have often motivated students by telling them how their brother / sister / friend did with the same task. Of course they immediately want to do better. (Incidentally a similar tactic works against themselves – tell them how they did last month and they’ll want to beat that too.)
What better motivation than pitching them against each other in the same task in a group lesson?
However this is delivered in such a way that there can be a winner, but never a loser. Everyone’s individual work is celebrated for what it is – their own individual work.
Less pressure
When working one to one with a tutor the lesson is all about you, which means you’re in focus 100% of the time. That isn’t always a good thing, as self-conscious students or those less confident in the subject can become overwhelmed and disengage from the lesson. They then have to be brought back in after time to give their brain a break.
In a group, the attention moves between the members, so everyone naturally gets time for a brain break, time to sit back and absorb, and time to jump in and contribute.
So each individual feels less pressure to ‘perform’ in the lesson.
Fun!
One of the main aims of lessons is to make learning fun. Too much of GCSE and A level terms are focused on pressure, goals, measurement, assessment, comparison. There’s little time for fun, and often attempts at fun in school are marked as bad behaviour.
In small group lessons, there’s plenty of room for fun as well as learning. And to be perfectly honest, I think it is an essential part of the process.
We’re working to build lifelong learners with a passion for STEM subjects, and that’s not going to come out of a dry lecture followed by an exam.
But it can come out of making jokes, making personal connections, and finding the fun in learning together.
We offer group tuition at Green Tutors from February to June every year. This year we’re focusing on supporting students on the pass/fail margin GCSE maths to give them the boost they need to pass their exam this year. If you’re interested in joining us, you can sign up at https://greentutors.co.uk/group-classes/.
You may be considering hiring a tutor, but not sure what to expect. You might have experienced hard sales tactics in the past, or regretted sharing your contact details by the fifth ‘Just checking’ message. I want to put your mind at ease today and tell you exactly what happens when a potential client gets in touch with me at Green Tutors.
The tutor team April 2019
These are some of the questions I am frequently asked when people contact me.
What information do you need?
Ultimately, I just need to be able to contact you when you request a tutor. Within a quick phone call or text conversation, I can identify the support you need, and whether it is something I can provide.
While every student is different, and the benefit of hiring a tutor is that tuition can be very personalised, there are a few common threads that our tuition tends to follow.
I will ask the age of your child, what they’re currently studying (qualification and level, i.e. GCSE maths and they’re in year 10), and identify what their particular goals and challenges are.
This will help me to match them to a tutor and share some advice, but their tutor will work with them in more detail and make sure they receive the targeted support they need.
When do I have to pay?
You won’t have to pay a penny until you’ve agreed on an ongoing schedule after hiring a tutor. Lessons are billed monthly in advance, so you will receive a bill for the remainder of the current month, due a couple of days before the first scheduled lesson happens.
Going forward, you’ll receive monthly invoices around the middle of the month, giving you at least a week to pay (usually two).
When you’re hiring a tutor for a regular lesson, the bill should be the same each month, and you can set it up on a Direct Debit so you don’t have to think about it.
If you want to change your schedule, pause the lessons, or increase them as exams approach, you can do that whenever you like, with a minimum of 48 hours’ notice. There is no minimum requirement for bookings.
What happens in the lessons?
There is no set approach, as the tutors will customise the lesson to the student and their goals.
If the student needs to build confidence, we’ll work on demonstrating their abilities, getting some ‘quick wins’ to show them what they’re capable of, and spend more time on any identified challenging areas as they come up. You can read more about this in our blog How can students get more confident before their exams.
If the student is preparing for an exam, we’ll work through exam questions with them, share the way that mark schemes are applied, and assist them in finding ways to put their knowledge onto paper. We’ll also share time management skills to help prevent overwhelm.
For anxious students, we’ll work through an anxiety ladder with them and help them to improve their resilience. We’ll share positive habits that will improve their well-being and help them to deal with future challenges. Cai Graham share’s some great advice on managing stress and anxiety.
Ultimately, we’re trying to make ourselves redundant. Successful hiring of a tutor ends with a student who can learn and grow independently so that they can go on to the next step of their academic career with confidence and a study ‘toolkit’.
What happens if my child doesn’t get along with the tutor?
I make sure that all of the tutors I hire are friendly and approachable, and know how to build relationships with their students.
That being said, it is important for the student to get along with their tutor, as we’re encouraging them to step out of their comfort zone and be vulnerable.
If you hire a tutor and then feel like your child is not getting along with them, I encourage you to get in touch and let me know. We’re very happy to receive your feedback, and we’re able to match you to a new tutor very quickly. We don’t take it personally.
Your tutor will also let you know if we feel like there is a challenging relationship, and give recommendations, as we want you to get the most from your investment. We know well that not every child comes easily to tutoring, and we’re happy to work with you to identify and improve any roadblocks. We want our students to enjoy learning.
Do you provide the support I need?
We provide online tuition for STEM subjects (maths, science, computer science, engineering) for 11-18-year-olds and adult learners.
I have been operating in this area since 2011, and have a wealth of experience in this area.
But I also have a wide network in the tutoring community, and I am always able to recommend someone if what you need doesn’t match what we offer.
For primary tuition I often refer students to Portia Smith.
What support will my child get?
Alongside regular tuition, we provide each student with a library of resources to work with in a Google Drive.
We send everyone a graphics tablet after their first session so that they can work directly with their tutor online. It removes the need to print massive exam bundles and means their work is saved online.
We provide a free revision masterclass to all clients so that they can make the most of their time with the tutor by also building in good habits. They’ll leave with a revision schedule that works for them, and includes time for work, rest, and play.
They’ll learn valuable study skills that they will be able to take with them through their entire academic career, from our team of experienced academic tutors who know well how to make the most of their study time.
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We’d love to support your child with their study goals. Submit your details at https://greentutors.co.uk/request-for-tuition/ for a no-obligation introductory appointment with a tutor.
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