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title: "For-profit online tutoring: Does it cost more than money? – News from the Nest"
description: "The Chronicle of Higher Education takes a deeper look into for-profit online tutoring in the article \"Boom in Online Tutoring Means Additional Costs for Many Students.\" It goes into detail about for-profit tutoring companies and how popular they’ve become with university students. These companies are not tutoring in the normal capacity, but rather are working…"
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# [For-profit online tutoring: Does it cost more than money? – News from the Nest](https://www.hawkeslearning.com/blog/for-profit-online-tutoring-does-it-cost-more-than-money)

 Written by [Hawkes Learning](https://www.hawkeslearning.com/blog/author/hawkes-learning) | Mar 1, 2016 5:00:00 AM

*The Chronicle of Higher Education* takes a deeper look into for-profit online tutoring in the article “Boom in Online Tutoring Means Additional Costs for Many Students.” It goes into detail about for-profit tutoring companies and how popular they’ve become with university students. These companies are not tutoring in the normal capacity, but rather are working almost like Uber. Students are spending a lot of money on them, but do they cost more than money? Read the article below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

[Check out the *Chronicle of Higher Education*‘s article here. ](http://chronicle.texterity.com/chronicle/20160219a?sub_id=U7zwaWZbPuez&pg=17#pg17)

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