Some tutoring under the government’s flagship catch-up programme may have harmed pupils’ outcomes, while tuition commissioned directly by schools likely led to only “small” boosts for pupils, an evaluation found.
The independent study focused on the 2021-22 academic year of the National Tutoring Programme, when it was run by Randstad, the HR firm later axed amid widespread criticism.
However, the evaluation is heavily caveated, so much so that the report even cautions against over-interpreting results “because of the complexities” involved in the analysis.
