Teachers to be offered overtime for one-to-one tuition in latest catch-up proposals
The TelegraphSchool teachers will be offered overtime pay to do one-to-one tuition with pupils under the Government’s latest catch-up plans. Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said that allowing schools to pay their own staff overtime to act as tutors is an “attractive” prospect. But he added that the logistics of the programme are still “incredibly complicated” and said that many schools may decide not to engage at all with the Government’s catch-up programme. Earlier this year, Sir Kevan Collins quit as the Government’s education recovery tsar, accusing ministers of a “half-hearted” approach to helping children whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic. Ms Curnock Cook added that the increased lead that girls have on their male peers in this year’s A-level grades “goes further than the usual concerns about boys’ underachievement in education compared to girls and needs a convincing explanation to eliminate what seems, on the face of it, to indicate systemic bias against boys”.
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