Australia's best Year 8 English Tutors

Learnmate is an online marketplace that connects families and individuals with independent tutors and coaches. Tutors on Learnmate set their own rates and deliver lessons directly to you; we provide the platform, secure payments, reviews, and support to help you find the right fit. Learnmate is not the tutoring service provider—your agreement is with your chosen tutor or coach.

Learnmate is used by people across Australia, including parents and students from kinder Year 12 seeking personalised school support, professionals looking for targeted coaching, and individuals or groups wanting to learn a new language, instrument, or skills such as coding or AI.

Working with a tutor on Learnmate helps you save time, avoid trial-and-error, and progress with less stress—so you can achieve more, sooner.

If you’re looking for school tutoring, professional coaching, or to learn a new skill or language—or you’re a tutor or coach ready to offer your services—we’d love to see you on Learnmate.

Search tutors

Finding a tutor or coach has never been simpler. Simply start your search by entering the subject, year level and curriculum you're seeking support for in Learnmate’s search bar. Take advantage of Learnmate's search fields and advanced filters to find the perfect tutor for you. These include:

• mode or location (in-person or online)
• hourly rate
• qualified teacher, and
• special needs experience

You can then open a tutor’s profile to read their bio, reviews, subjects and rates.

Click “Contact tutor” to message them. Create your account to chat, manage your lesson schedule, and purchase prepaid packages.

Post a job on the Jobs Board

Click “Post a Job” to share what you need, including subject, year level, goals, budget and location or online. From there:

• Your job appears on the Jobs Board and interested tutors on Learnmate apply to help.

• Review applications, compare profiles and choose your preferred tutor to start lessons.

Tip: Use both options. Post a job and message tutors directly so you can compare options and find your match faster.

Request a tutor

If you have tried searching but are unable to find a tutor or coach for your needs, feel free to hit 'Request a tutor' in the top right of your browser and we'll do our best to match you with a Learnmate in 1-2 business days.

The best tutors.
Learnmate provides a platform to find trusted individuals you want to learn from. Our community consists of high achievers, highly experienced teachers and professionals who have conquered a subject or domain and can help you achieve your learning goals.

Whether you're after a tutor who was a high achiever in school, a qualified teacher, a coaching professional or simply an expert in their domain, there's someone for everyone on Learnmate.

Affordable and fairly priced
Tutors and coaches set their own hourly rates on Learnmate based on their experience, qualifications and overall service. With over 700+ tutors on Learnmate, there is an affordable tutor available for every household budget.

On average, tutors and coaches are up to 50% cheaper than tutors and coaches engaged through agencies and other companies. Why? The simple answer is Learnmate takes less with an industry leading commission structure. Agencies and companies typically take a margin of between 40-65% from tutors while Learnmate's commission ranges between only 23-30%. That simply means less is passed onto you.

Simply and effortlessly succeed and save with a Learnmate.

Our community

Our tutoring community is made up of tutors and coaches from many different walks of life but all have one thing in common: they have a passion for teaching and want to leverage and share their expertise, knowledge, skills, tricks and prior success to help you achieve your potential and succeed faster.

From qualified teachers and professionals who have mastered their field, to recent graduates and aspiring neurosurgeons, doctors, lawyers, engineers, mathematicians, data scientists, web developers and future leaders, every tutor on Learnmate is unique.

Bios

One of the best parts about Learnmate is that you have complete freedom to review any tutor's profile, including their experience, achievements, pricing and subjects tutored. This means you pick who you want to learn from or partner with, have complete transparency who is teaching you or your kids and can be confident you're getting value for money. 

Tutors set their own hourly rates on Learnmate and the cost of tutoring varies based on several factors, including the tutor's experience, qualifications, and the level of education they are teaching. Here are some average hourly rates on Learnmate in 2024 to give you a better idea:

• Overall Average Hourly Rate: $55/hour
• Average for Year 11-12 Tutoring: $60/hour
• Average for Primary School Tutoring: $47/hour
• Average for Qualified Teachers: $78/hour
• Average for Expert Tutors: $62/hour

A community marketplace

As a marketplace, Learnmate is always open for new tutors and coaches to join the platform and offer their services. Head to our registration page here to view the minimum requirements to list on Learnmate and to apply.

Minimum requirements

People come to Learnmate with specific learning objectives in mind and it is important that tutors are able to help them achieve those objectives. Accordingly, it is important that you have the ability, experience, knowledge and resources (or willing to obtain them) to get the best out of your students. This generally means having materials, plans and resources to provide your clients.

You can view the minimum requirements we typically look for before approving tutors on our registration page.

Not sure if you meet the minimum requirements or worried you don't have enough experience? Tutors and coaches at all stages of their careers use Learnmate. Whether that's a 18 year old looking for their first student after finishing school or a qualified teacher of 20 years. We recommend applying regardless. The most important thing we look for in tutors is passion and commitment to helping others achieve their learning goals.

Tutors and coaches must apply to list on Learnmate and meet certain minimum requirements before approved to list. Learnmate reviews all applications to ensure that tutors and coaches meet a minimum level of relevant experience and/or qualification. That said, you should always review a tutor or coach's profile and ensure they meet your requirements before proceeding to lessons.

Generally, tutors must have:

• experience teaching

• a relevant qualification or experience

• can demonstrate they have mastered a skill or domain, or

• personally excelled at the subjects they teach.

Additionally, all tutors and coaches are required to maintain a current Working with Children Check to work with students under the age of 18 in Australia. Please ensure you ask to see and verify your tutor's Working with Children Check prior to engaging any tutor for students under the age of 18.

There's something for everyone on Learnmate. 

There are over 110 subjects currently taught by tutors and coaches on Learnmate. The subject range includes tutoring for children aged anywhere between ELC/kinder and Year 12, to anyone looking to learn an instrument, language or skill (such as coding) or a professional looking for business and life coaching.

Specific subjects include (but are not limited to):

• English, Science and Maths

• Business, Economics and Arts

• Languages, such as French, Spanish and German

• Musical instruments, such as Guitar, Cello, Piano and Violin

• Admissions tests and interview preparation

• Business & Life Coaching

• Coding

• and much more...!

Tutors and coaches are available both online and in-person all across Australia. Whether you’re in a metropolitan CBD or living in a remote location, there will be someone for you on Learnmate.

Tutors choose where and how they tutor - some will tutor online and in-person and some may only do one or the other. You can use Learnmate's filters located on the left hand side of your search (if you can't see it, press the little green tab) to see if there are tutors near you.

The availability of in-person tutoring will depend on your location and particular need. As tutors have spent the last few years learning and teaching online, we're confident they have mastered teaching online and can be just as effective as if they were in-person. 

Learnmate is a cashless platform.

To have lessons with a tutor, users need to join Learnmate and have a valid credit or debit card linked to the account. You will be prompted on sign-up to add connect a credit card to your account. As per our Terms & Conditions, cash payment and direct transfers are not accepted.

Automated payments. 

Payment will be automatically processed from the credit or debit card linked to your account 24 hours after each lesson.

Privacy & Security

Learnmate uses Stripe, one of the most trusted payment providers, to process and securely and privately store payment information. Learnmate does not store or have any visibility over your payment information.

The likes of Airbnb, Amazon, Zoom, Atlassian, Shopify and many other companies you deal with on a day-to-day basis all use Stripe to process payments. 

You're in safe and secure hands with Stripe. 

If you're engaging a tutor for a school student, the answer will depend on the student’s specific needs, current level and goals.

Evidence for Learning (2020) believe that optimum impact is achieved in one-to-one tutoring where short (roughly 30 minute) regular lessons are completed 3-5 times per week (i.e. 1.5-2.5 hours per week) over a set period of time. Our data suggests this is most suitable for younger and primary school tuition, whereas Year 11-12 tuition tends to be longer (1-1.5 hours) lessons and should occur 1-2 times per week.