Part-time tutor jobs for UM students, open all year: from the Lembah Pantai campus, teach at home across central Kuala Lumpur and the Klang Valley, or online nationwide. Malaysia's oldest university brings a deep talent pool in medicine, law, engineering and the sciences.
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Take two learners in a light semester and one when clinical postings or finals arrive; your load follows the UM calendar.
Bangsar, Pantai Dalam and Petaling Jaya sit an LRT stop or a quick Grab from Lembah Pantai, so travel eats little of your evening.
STPM, IB and SPM science learners want the depth a UM science, medical or law student carries, and every lesson they confirm is paid hourly in MYR.
UM's science, medicine and economics faculties feed the subjects below. Any other subject you scored well in is open too.
Tahun 1 to Tingkatan 6 路 RM50鈥揜M150/hr
Tahun 1 to Tingkatan 6 路 RM50鈥揜M150/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M170/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M170/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M160/hr
Tingkatan 6 (STPM) + Cambridge A-Level 路 RM70鈥揜M180/hr
Tingkatan 6 / Pre-University 路 RM80鈥揜M200/hr
IB Diploma Programme 路 RM80鈥揜M220/hr
Send your UM faculty, year and the subjects you scored best in.
A short call on your strongest subject and the weekday slots your semester leaves free.
Learners in Bangsar, Pantai Dalam or Petaling Jaya, or online from anywhere.
Your first lesson lands in a free slot, and each validated session is paid in MYR.
Friends at UKM, USM, UPM, UTM or UiTM apply through their own campus page.
UKM 路 Bangi, Selangor
USM 路 Minden / Gelugor, Pulau Pinang
UPM 路 Serdang, Selangor
UTM 路 Skudai, Johor Bahru
UiTM 路 Shah Alam, Selangor
IIUM 路 Gombak, Selangor
Taylor's 路 Subang Jaya, Selangor
Sunway University 路 Bandar Sunway, Selangor
Monash Malaysia 路 Bandar Sunway, Selangor
MMU 路 Cyberjaya, Selangor
UNIMAS 路 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak
UMS 路 Sepanggar, Sabah
UNITEN 路 Kajang, Selangor
UMT 路 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu
UMK 路 Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan
Nottingham Malaysia 路 Semenyih, Selangor
Home lessons from Lembah Pantai reach every town listed here.
The UM timetable leaves its gaps in predictable places. Lectures and tutorials fill the mornings in the faculty blocks, labs and studio work take some afternoons, and the evenings after six open up once the campus buses thin out. Saturday mornings are usually clear as well, and those are exactly the hours when Form 5 and STPM learners finish school and want help.
A common pattern pairs an SPM Chemistry learner on Tuesday and Thursday evenings with an STPM Mathematics T candidate on Saturday morning. That comes to about three hours of teaching a week, each slot fixed once and repeated, so assignments, group projects and lab reports keep the rest of the week.
The shape shifts twice a semester. Mid-semester tests squeeze one week, and the final examination fortnight closes most evenings. Tell Edustar about those weeks early, and the learner can bring revision lessons forward so both of you reach your exams prepared.
UM sits on the Kelana Jaya Line, with Universiti station at the campus edge. Heading toward the city, Kerinchi serves Bangsar South and Pantai Dalam, and Abdullah Hukum connects to Mid Valley. Heading the other way, Taman Jaya and Asia Jaya reach into the older sections of Petaling Jaya, so a learner two stops away is a short ride after an evening class.
By road, Section 16 and Section 17 of Petaling Jaya lie just across the campus boundary, and Taman Tun Dr Ismail and Bukit Kiara are a quick drive along the Sprint Highway. Brickfields and Seputeh sit on the city side, a few minutes past Bangsar.
Edustar matches home lessons by the area you name on your profile, so a tutor without a car can keep every learner on the train line. A tutor who drives can widen the circle toward Damansara Heights or Mont Kiara on weekends, when the roads are calmer.
Many UM students live in the residential colleges on campus or in rented rooms around Pantai Dalam and Kerinchi, and online lessons fit both well. Learners join from every state in Malaysia and from abroad, always on Malaysian time, so a Thursday 8 pm lesson can reach a Form 4 learner in Kota Kinabalu or an IB candidate overseas.
Edustar provides the video-call service for every online lesson. You bring a laptop or tablet, a steady connection and a way to write working by hand, either a pen tablet or a phone camera pointed at paper. Chemistry equations, mechanics diagrams and Mathematics T working all read clearly that way.
Shared rooms and busy corridors call for a plan. Faculty discussion rooms and library study spaces are quiet in the evening, a headset keeps your voice off the next desk, and a mobile hotspot covers the nights when campus Wi-Fi slows under heavy use.
The first offer names the level, the place and the rate before you say yes. Accept it, and the opening lesson is mostly listening: the learner's latest school test, a PBD report or an STPM term paper shows where marks are slipping, and that becomes the plan for the next four weeks.
Each lesson closes with a few written lines of progress, sent to the learner and to whoever registered them. The habit carries straight over from a UM tutorial report: the topic covered, the question type that still costs marks, and the past-year paper set for next week. An STPM candidate who reads that on a Sunday night knows where to start, and a learner who can see the plan working keeps the same tutor through to the trial exam.
By the second month most UM tutors settle into a rhythm: the same evenings, one topic per lesson, past-year questions marked the way SPM and STPM examiners mark them. Learners can ask for a free tutor replacement whenever they wish, which keeps every match honest and lets you focus on teaching well.
Students who entered UM through matriculation or Asasi often ask whether they can teach STPM. They can, provided they know the syllabus well. Mathematics T, Physics and Chemistry at STPM cover ground close to first-year university work, so a UM science student usually needs one evening with the current syllabus document before the first lesson.
IB is the other common question. Learners in international schools around Mont Kiara and Damansara sit IB Diploma papers, and a UM tutor who took IGCSE or IB at school, or who knows the topic deeply, is a natural match. The long semester break suits these learners too, because Edustar recruits and matches all year.
Yes. Current UM undergraduates and postgraduates from any faculty can apply, from Asasi Sains graduates in their first semester to master's candidates. A strong grade in the subject you teach and a steady weekly slot count for more than a teaching diploma.
Most pick two or three weekday evening or Saturday slots and pause during clinical postings or final exams. You set the number of learners, and Edustar schedules around the UM academic calendar.
Home lessons run close to Lembah Pantai: Bangsar, Pantai Dalam, Petaling Jaya, Damansara and Mont Kiara, all a short LRT or Grab ride from campus. Online lessons reach learners in every state.
Edustar pays you in MYR for every completed session, at the hourly band printed on each subject card. Apply with the short form, name UM as your campus and list the subjects you know best, such as STPM Mathematics T, SPM Physics or IB Chemistry.
Tell us your faculty and your strongest subjects, and Edustar sends you learners near Bangsar and Petaling Jaya or online.