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= Richard Evans[edit] = Richard Evans (born 16th October 1990) is a British education entrepreneur. Evans won The Department for Education’s Open Data Competition in 2018, NatWest’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017 and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur in 2019. He is co-founder of the tutoring companies The Profs and Spires as well as the online whiteboard Bitpaper. He is known as a thought leader in the tutoring industry and on education in England

Education[edit]
Evans attended Westminster School, a public school located in Westminster, London. He then attended London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he achieved a first-class honours degree in Economics and Philosophy.[citation needed]

The Profs[edit]
In 2014, Evans founded The Profs, a tuition company specialising in university-level tutoring, alongside a group of experienced university tutors including his brother, Dr Leo Evans, a lecturer at Imperial College London and former Vice President at J.P. Morgan. A year after co-founding The Profs, Richard also co-founded EdTech start-up, Bitpaper, an online whiteboard used by hundreds of thousands of teachers, tutors and students worldwide. Later, he also co-founded another EdTech startup, Spires an innovative online tutoring platform. In 2017 The Profs was recognised as Best Private Tutoring Company at the Education Investor Awards, in 2018 The Telegraph’s Most Innovative SME Exporter[citation needed] and in 2022 Best Customer Service at The Tutors’ Association’s National Tutoring Awards. In 2020, The Profs acquired London-based tutoring company Tavistock Tutors in a share purchase.

Department for Education Open Data Competition App Winner[edit]
In December 2018, The Profs was one of two winners of The Department for Education’s Open Data Competition. Two contracts worth £150,000 were awarded to create a new app that would offer students a ‘personalised careers assistant’. Richard led the team to create TheWayUp - offering prospective students the chance to simulate a range of different graduate career paths through an innovative game. The contract was awarded through Innovate UK’s Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) for companies to develop digital tools that allow prospective students to access and compare earnings and employment outcomes from different degrees. In March 2019, TheWayUp was launched in a public beta.

The Tutors’ Association[edit]
In 2017, Richard Evans was elected the the board of The Tutors’ Association (TTA) as Non-Executive Director[citation needed], and later in 2020 as Honorary Treasurer[citation needed]. The Tutors' Association is the only professional membership body for tutoring and the wider supplementary education sector in the UK[citation needed]. During his tenure on the board, Evans led on reforms to modernise the association and events focusing on the rise of online tutoring.[citation needed]

During the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, Richard arranged free online training programmes that retrained 600 tutors within weeks of the first UK lockdown[citation needed].

Although supportive of the initiative, Evans was critical of the management of The National Tutoring Program in FE News ; in June 2020 he publicly criticised the programme for not requiring experienced tutors, instead allowing inexperienced university students to become the majority of tutors - raising “...concerns that…the National Tutoring Programme funding may go to the cheapest, not the most effective...in the tutoring world”  In March 2022, Evans again publicly criticised the scheme for removing its targets relating to disadvantaged students, saying “...removing the focus on the most disadvantaged pupils, the National Tutoring Programme loses sight of its core purpose of helping those most in need.”

Tutoring industry advocacy and media[edit]
Richard Evans has often been interviewed as a Thought Leader for articles relating to education or the tutoring industry, in The Telegraph, The Times. The Sun, and Metro, newspapers. Richard is an advocate of the HeForShe gender equality campaign. Through his company The Profs and his work with The Tutors' Association, Evans has worked to professionalised the tutoring sector - in 2018, he launched the ‘Not In Our Name’ campaign to lobby the government to make essay mills and other unethical practices illegal. Essay mills were criminalised in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill in 2021.

Awards[edit]
Richard Evans has won several awards:

"Richard Evans: Award-winning Tuition Company That Has Been Providing Top-quality Tutoring to Students Across the World". BestStartup.co.uk. 2022-08-09. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
 * Forbes 30 Under 30 (2019) in the Social Entrepreneur Category
 * Great British Young Entrepreneur of The Year (2017) at the Natwest Great British Entrepreneur Awards (GBEA)
 * Young Entrepreneur to Watch (2016) by www.startups.co.uk