Tutoring

Long read: How the flagship tutoring programme is slowly sinking

Ministers face crunch decisions on the National Tutoring Programme's legacy

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Catch-up

MPs: Keep tutoring subsidy in poor areas to avoid ‘epidemic of inequality’

Ministers urged to review plans to gradually taper off subsidies for flagship catch-up programme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

National Tutoring Programme target for poorer pupils ditched

Tutor firms will no longer have to reach at least two-thirds of poorer pupils

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Ministers fail to reveal tutoring figures despite MP demands

Education committee chair calls for 'urgent' public data dashboard

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Ministers should ‘seriously consider’ revoking Randstad’s NTP contract, says Halfon

Education committee chair makes major intervention over tutor scheme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Catch-up

Heads want tutor money directly after NTP ‘bureaucratic nightmare’

Staff 'don't have the capacity' to sign pupils up to flagship programme

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

DfE ‘encouraging’ schools to use tutors and mentors to cover staff shortages

The Department for Education is “actively encouraging” schools to use in-house tutors and academic mentors in “support of teaching”...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Tutoring

Flagship tutor scheme ‘scandalously’ short of targets – with just 8% of mentoring provided

Official figures reveal flagging take-up of approved tuition, as schools choose to go their own way

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Tutoring

Tutoring stand-off set to end as providers sign contracts

Three week contract dispute with Randstad comes to a close

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth