National Tutoring Programme: Info & thoughts from our CEO
The National Tutoring Programme
Equal Education welcomes the announcement of the National Tutoring Programme from the Department of Education, DfE and the Education Endowment Foundation. We explore Equal Education’s relationship with the NTP and Catch Up Tuition for the new academic year.
The £1billion package is a necessary if not crucial boost to the beleaguered education children and young people have experienced during the Covid19 Pandemic. £350million has been specifically allocated to a heavily subsidised tutoring programme.
Equal Education, in coalition with third sector partners, have been actively campaigning for the government to invest in tutoring to support disadvantaged pupils. Since 2012, we have worked with 1000+ vulnerable children who could benefit from targeted one-to-one support from qualified teachers. For that reason, we signed the letter sent to the Secretary of State for Education.
The coalition is led by the Fair Education Alliance and involved experts such as Anne Longfield (Children’s Commissioner for England), Robert Halfon MP (Chair of the Education Select Committee) and Prof Lee Elliot Major (University of Exeter and former CEO of The Sutton Trust). Together with partner organisations who share similar values including The Access Project, Action Tutoring, The Brilliant Club, CoachBright, Future Frontiers, Get Further Literacy Pirates, TalentEd, TeamUp and the West London Zone.
What does the evidence say about one-to-one tutoring?
The EEF states that tuition is “the catch-up approach supported by the strongest evidence”.
Equal Education is proud to be one of the coalition partners who exclusively use qualified teachers to delivery tutoring and this is further backed up by EEF Evidence on effectiveness,
“Programmes involving Teaching assistants or volunteers can have a valuable impact, but tend to be less effective than those using experienced and specifically trained teachers, which have nearly twice the effect on average”
How can I get involved?
If you’re a school, you can contact us and register your interest. Once we have further details from the EEF, we will get in touch with you. We will be working hard over the summer to prepare thoroughly for the roll out of the National Tutoring Programme.
If you’re a qualified teacher and would like to tutor, please get in touch with us through our website referencing the “National Tutoring Programme”.
Thoughts from Paul Singh, CEO:
“It is an exciting announcement, to see the action of the collective coalition of partners galvanise to deliver a letter to the Secretary of State for Education and then hear the announcement on Friday. When I signed this letter a few weeks back, I did not expect such an announcement of this size and so soon of a National Tutoring Programme.
A generation will have the likes of Robert Halfon MP, Anne Longfield and Professor Lee Elliot Major to thank for their invaluable contributions and support.
I look forward to working together closely with our coalition partners to deliver a national tutoring service and working with the vibrant community to improve educational outcomes. This presents a new opportunity to invite more qualified teachers into our community to deliver excellence in tutoring and be paid for their effort and time.
At Equal Education we have always believed that support and intervention should match the needs of individuals and their learning journey. This announcement provides school leaders with resources and support at their disposal, so that together we can pursue educational excellence and raise educational outcomes.”