"It is not going too well, " he admits, but he is looking forward to some individual tuition once he arrives in Perpignan next week.

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Now the government has accepted the idea that students should pay some of their own way, why not let Oxbridge colleges charge a little extra to cover the costs of individual tuition?

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We've started, we've got much to do, and to do that I think we've got to concentrate on how we can get individual tuition so that we bring out the best in every pupil.

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