01.1
Home Tuition
One learner, one engineer, one table
A STEM specialist travels to you with the kit. Best where a student is far ahead, far behind, or simply not served by what school offers.
Ages 4–1860 or 90 minKit included
Division 01 · KOA STEM
Science, technology,
engineering & mathematics.
The applied side of the group. We teach students aged 6 to 18 to design, build, break and repair real systems — through three delivery routes that can be combined however a family or a school needs.
- Learners / year
- 18,900
- Delivery routes
- Three
- Programme families
- Six
- Educator background
- Practising engineers
ST-101 · Robotics & MechatronicsST-204 · Coding & Software CraftST-310 · Applied AI & DataST-118 · Electronics & EmbeddedST-402 · Science & Maths Quiz TrainingST-256 · Laboratory SciencesST-101 · Robotics & MechatronicsST-204 · Coding & Software CraftST-310 · Applied AI & DataST-118 · Electronics & EmbeddedST-402 · Science & Maths Quiz TrainingST-256 · Laboratory Sciences
Delivery routes§ 01
Three ways in.
One curriculum spine.
Whichever route you take, the progression map is identical — so a student can start with a home tutor, join a centre cohort in year two, and never repeat or skip a unit.
01.2
School Partnerships
Whole-school capability, not a one-off assembly
We write the scheme of work, fit the laboratory, train your teachers and stay for the three years it takes to make it stick.
18 schoolsCPD accreditedLab fit-out
01.3
Online & Centre-Based
Cohorts on screen, workshops on the floor
Live small-group teaching online for theory and code, plus 2 innovation centres for the parts of engineering that need a bench and a soldering iron.
2 centresMax 8 per cohortTerm & holiday
Teaching method§ 02
Four rules we do not bend.
Written in 2011 after two years of getting it wrong. They apply to a nine-year-old with a line-following robot and a sixth-former training a classifier.
P/01
Build first, define later
A concept is introduced when a student hits the wall that needs it. Torque is explained when the robot stalls, not three weeks before.
P/02
Real tools, real constraints
Industry-standard boards, version control, oscilloscopes and datasheets. We do not teach a simplified fiction that has to be unlearned later.
P/03
Failure is instrumented
Every broken build gets a written post-mortem. Debugging is the transferable skill; the finished robot is a side effect.
P/04
Assessed by artefact
Termly demonstrations where students present what they made to an audience that asks difficult questions.
Programme families§ 03
Six families, forty-one units.
Each family runs across four levels. A learner enters at the level their diagnostic places them, not the one their birthday implies.
ST-101Ages 8–16
Robotics & Mechatronics
Chassis design, gearing, sensor arrays and autonomous navigation. Students finish with a machine that works, not a worksheet.
ST-204Ages 9–18
Coding & Software Craft
Scratch to Python to TypeScript. Version control, testing and code review taught the way real engineering teams work.
ST-310Ages 13–18
Applied AI & Data
Datasets, model behaviour, bias and evaluation. Students build a small model and then argue honestly about its limits.
ST-118Ages 10–18
Electronics & Embedded
Breadboards, soldering, microcontrollers and firmware. Every learner leaves with a working board they built themselves.
ST-402Ages 12–18
Science & Maths Quiz Training
Structured NSMQ preparation: speed rounds, riddles, problem-of-the-day and true contest conditions with a bell and a clock.
ST-256Ages 11–18
Laboratory Sciences
Practical biology, chemistry and physics with genuine apparatus. Method, measurement error and honest write-ups.
Progression
Foundation → Applied → Advanced → Independent
The final level is an eighteen-week independent project with an assigned industry mentor. Fifty-eight of last year’s projects were entered for national competition.
- Entry
- Diagnostic assessment, no prior experience required
- Group size
- 1:1 at home · max 8 in centre cohorts · max 24 in schools
- Session length
- 60 or 90 minutes, weekly during term
- Equipment
- Supplied and insured by KOA; students keep final builds
- Accreditation
- CREST Awards (Bronze to Gold) available at every level
- Reporting
- Written tutor note each session, formal review every six weeks
I asked for a tutor to help with GCSE physics. What arrived was an engineer who made my son build a wind tunnel out of a fan and a shoebox. He got a 9. He also now wants to do aerospace.
Marcus Wills
Parent · KOA STEM Home Tuition, East Legon
Non-negotiables
What we check before anyone teaches your child.
- Enhanced background check with barred-list access, renewed every twelve months
- Two verified professional references, contacted by a human being
- Subject competence test set and marked by our head of curriculum
- Observed teaching session before a first placement is confirmed
- Annual safeguarding and Prevent training, with a recorded assessment
- Public liability and professional indemnity cover on every session