EEF response to new NTP delivery partners

EEF RESPONDS TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW DELIVERY PARTNERS FOR THE NATIONAL TUTORING PROGRAMME

Professor Becky Francis, CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), said:

“The announcement of the new delivery partners for the National Tutoring Programme is an opportunity to reaffirm the huge potential it has to make a long-term contribution to ending the entrenched education inequality in England. 

“There are very few teaching and learning approaches that are as proven, or as scalable, as tutoring. This is not based in ideology, but in evidence; a robust body of research that tells us that high-quality tutoring can help pupils make up to five months’ additional progress over a single year.

“Schools need to be confident that the tutoring they’re accessing will be high-quality, act as a complement to classroom teaching, and provide support for the pupils that need it the most. In its new phase, it’s critical that the programme retains and strengthens its moral mission of serving the most disadvantaged pupils.