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UNCOVERED: National tutoring programme - The Untold Story

Funding concerns preventing tutoring from becoming ’embedded’ in schools

More than half of school leaders cited the reduced subsidy rate as one of the main reasons for dropping out of the National Tutoring Programme.

The Independent UK

30% of secondary school children now have private tuition

The proportion is the highest figure since the survey began

Wales Online

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

The Government’s flagship National Tutoring Programme has given a wider range of students access to tutoring, a charity suggests.

The Independent UK

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National Tutoring Programme will ‘fail’ pupils unless it reforms

A new report has argued for reforms of flagship tutoring programme to ensure ‘high-quality’ providers.

The Independent UK

National Tutoring Programme gets take-up boost as new contractors announced

New figures show pupils began nearly 600,000 courses in the last two months, taking the total to just under 2.1 million since the scheme’s inception.

The Independent UK

Four major challenges facing Britain's education system after the pandemic

The UK goverment’s Department for Education has some new ministers in charge following the political turmoil surrounding Boris Johnson’s resignation. After resigning only two days into the job of education secretary, Michelle Donelan has been replaced by James Cleverly, MP for Braintree.

The Conversation

Some children in Notts can't say their own name or use the loo when starting school says headteacher

The headteacher also said half of pupils in reception and nursery are not toilet trained

Nottingham Post

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School system is ‘failing’ on multiple fronts – report

A commission identified 12 key steps to improve the education system, with most parents feeling schools do not prepare children well for working life.

The Independent UK

Nearly 500,000 pupils 'miss out on Covid catch up' provision ahead of GCSEs

Boris Johnson promised personal tutoring provision to help children catch up after the pandemic wreaked havoc on their learning but the roll out has been criticised for failing to reach kids

Daily Mirror

Heads fear national tutoring data will be ‘de facto league table’

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi confirmed data on schools’ uptake of the flagship tutoring programme will be used by Ofsted.

The Independent UK

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

In additional the Department for Education will share data on schools’ use of the scheme with Ofsted.

The Independent UK

Poor pupils 'up to eight months behind' at school as Covid catch-up tutoring misses them

Education Committee chairman Robert Halfon said Covid school closures had been a 'national disaster' in a new report laying bare the hit to pupils' schooling and life chances

Daily Mirror

Focus on poorer pupils removed as National Tutoring Programme target

A professor of social mobility described the move as an ‘outrageous’ and ‘cynical’ attempt to boost flagging numbers.

The Independent UK

Some tutors on Covid catch-up scheme ‘not good with children’, MPs told

Headteachers criticise the national tutoring programme at meeting of MPs

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