The government is asking schools to consider extending tutoring sessions beyond one hour or provide multiple courses per week to complete “as many [tutoring] packages as possible before the end of August”.
School leaders received an email today also advising them to consider splitting the 15-hour tutoring packages between two pupils to ensure courses are delivered.
It comes as the Department for Education scrambles to reach its distant target to deliver two million tutoring courses under the struggling National Tutoring Programme this year.
Latest figures show that just under 1.2 million tutoring courses have been started since September – leaving the government 40 per cent off its promise.
