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Higher Economics tutors

7 UK tutors who teach Economics at Higher. £25–£150/hr · median £60

Economics is offered at GCSE (less commonly) and A-level (AQA, Edexcel, OCR), and splits into microeconomics (markets, firms, market failure) and macroeconomics (growth, inflation, unemployment, policy). It's essay-and-data-heavy at A-level: students need to apply theory to current real-world events and write to mark schemes that reward structured argument with diagrams. Tutoring helps most with diagram technique (which is rewarded explicitly), with essay structure under timed conditions, and with the macro paper, which lags news and rewards students who follow the FT or equivalent. For Oxbridge or LSE applicants, look for tutors who go beyond the spec.

Scottish Higher is the standard Scottish sixth-year qualification, sat in S5 (age 16-17), and is the main route into Scottish university applications (which run on a different cycle from English UCAS). Most students take five Highers in S5, with strong applicants sitting another year of Advanced Highers in S6. The qualification is administered by Qualifications Scotland (formerly the SQA, renamed February 2026), with coursework and examination components. Tutoring helps most with subject content, with the coursework write-ups, and with exam-paper technique under SQA mark schemes. Match the tutor to SQA experience specifically. Higher is not interchangeable with A-level, despite frequently being compared.

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