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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray

Schools urged to adopt maligned National Tutoring Programme

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The government promises £349m for 2022/23 and greater transparency to overcome teething problems.
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The education secretary will write to schools this week to urge them to use the government’s flagship national tutoring programme (NTP), which has been criticised for failing to help disadvantaged pupils.

The department for education (DfE) also announced it would publish data showing how each school is using the programme, and that this would be shared with Ofsted.

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