In Autumn 2020 the government launched the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) to provide tuition support for pupils as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first year of the NTP was made up of two pillars including: the Tuition Partners (TP) programme (which provided tutoring support to pupils), and the Academic Mentoring programme (in which mentors were placed in schools to work with small groups of pupils).
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) commissioned an independent evaluation, led by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) with Kantar Public and the University of Westminster (UoW). This evaluation covers the Tuition Partners (TP) programme as delivered in its first year by the EEF, from November 2020 to August 2021 – entailing a large-scale implementation and process evaluation (IPE), an impact evaluation in primary schools, and an impact evaluation for Year 11 pupils. The study also includes an impact evaluation of the first year of the Academic Mentoring (AM) programme for Year 11 pupils only (there was insufficient data to analyse the impact for other year groups). The first year of the AM programme was managed by Teach First. (A separate process evaluation of Academic Mentoring was undertaken and published by Teach First.)
