Instructing peers to ignore dodgy interest group (8)
I believe the answer is:
tutoring
'instructing' is the definition.
(tutoring is a kind of instructing)
'peers to ignore dodgy interest group' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'to' is within the answer.
'group' could be 'ring' (a ring is a criminal organisation) and 'ring' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tutoring that I've seen before include "Instructing, teaching" , "Giving private teaching to" , "Private instruction" , "Teaching privately" , "Giving individual instruction" .)