CYP Now - Government waters down mentor standards for education catch-up programme

Qualifications required for applicants to the government’s Covid-19 catch-up tutoring programme have been relaxed since the scheme was launched, CYP Now can reveal.

Tutors no longer have to have a degree or teaching qualification to join the NTP. Picture: Adobe Stock

During 2020/21, when Teach First was contracted by the Department for Education to recruit academic mentors for the National Tutoring Programme (NTP), applicants were required to have a degree at 2:2 or above or a Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), as well grade C/4 or above in GCSE maths and English or equivalent.

However, latest information published on the NTP website now says that academic mentors require a minimum of three A-levels at A*-C grade (or equivalent), a minimum of a grade 4 in English and maths at GCSE level and the right to work in the UK.

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