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National Tutoring Programme will ‘fail’ pupils unless it reforms

The Government’s flagship National Tutoring Programme (NTP) is at risk of failing if it does not implement much-needed reforms, a new report argues. For the 2022/23 academic year, Tribal Group, Education Development Trust, and Cognition Education ...

26 Jul 2022 at 01:01

Poorest pupils up to eight months behind their peers, MPs warn

Disadvantaged pupils in poor areas could be up to eight months behind their peers in aspects of their education following the pandemic, MPs have warned. A new report from the Commons Education Select Committee, published on Thursday, said the ...

10 Mar 2022 at 23:25

Focus on poorer pupils removed as National Tutoring Programme target

The removal of a target to help disadvantaged pupils from the National Tutoring Programme is “outrageous” and “cynical”, a social mobility expert has said. In an email sent to school leaders and tuition partners seen by the PA news agency, ...

02 Mar 2022 at 16:55

Labour: All secondary pupils will have left by the time catch-up target is met

Labour has criticised the Government over the pace of its education recovery package, saying that by the time its targets on tutoring are met, all current secondary pupils will have left school. The party said its analysis of figures on ...

30 May 2022 at 13:43

Schools to receive all tutoring funding directly as Randstad loses contract

The company which runs the Government’s national tutoring programme has lost the contract for next year, the Department for Education has announced. Randstad has been criticised by schools and tuition providers throughout its tenure ...

31 Mar 2022 at 12:25

Labour demand answers on £7m increase to Randstad contract

Shadow schools minister Stephen Morgan has asked why the Government gave the firm running its flagship tutoring scheme an extra £7 million of public funds as it was being criticised for “catastrophic” failures. In May 2021, the ...

05 Apr 2022 at 10:55

Education Secretary ‘strongly’ urges tutoring take up as senior MP questions Randstad contract

Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi has written to headteachers “strongly” urging them to take up the Government’s flagship tutoring programme. The news comes as a senior MP suggested that the Government should break its ...

09 Feb 2022 at 15:55

Catch-up tutors ‘variable and not good with children’, headteacher tells MPs

Catch-up tutors helping pupils who have lost learning during the pandemic are “inconsistent” in quality and not always “very good with children”, MPs were told on Tuesday. Under the Government’s flagship tutoring ...

25 Jan 2022 at 13:25

Richard E Grant: Charles was extraordinarily kind to my wife before she died

Richard E Grant has praised King Charles III, who arranged to visit his wife before she died from lung cancer last year. Joan Washington, who was a voice coach to celebrities including Penelope Cruz and Jessica ...

11 Sept 2022 at 11:12

Zahawi writes to all schools to urge take-up of tutoring programme

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi is to write to schools to urge them to use the Government’s flagship National Tutoring Programme. Parents will also be able to access data on how their child’s school is using ...

02 May 2022 at 01:25

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Longford adult education tutors to protest today over Minister's broken promise

Longford adult education tutors and their supporters are set to protest today (Friday, May 12 at 2pm) outside the Department of Further & Higher Education on St Stephen's Green against what they term a broken ...

12 May 2023 at 10:33

Three in 10 secondary school children have had private tuition, survey finds

Nearly one in three secondary school pupils have had private tuition, research suggests. Children in the “best-off” homes were more likely to report having had private tutoring than their peers in the ...

09 Mar 2023 at 00:01

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