Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes is Founder and CEO of TLC Live. He trained as a teacher at Exeter University and, after graduating, worked in the TEFL industry. He became Director of Studies at EF Cambridge before moving to Oxford to take over the running of a school; he also set up and had responsibility for schools in central London and Dublin. Simon then ran several education projects in the UAE, Italy and the US.

In 2001 Simon was asked to set up tutoring centres in the UK by Sylvan Leaning, a multinational education company. In 2004 he left to start up his own tutoring company, The Learning Centres, which in July 2010 became TLC Education Group and now has partnerships with five schools in East Anglia and a growing online business.