Press coverage
Action Tutoring is keen to raise awareness of its work and of education inequality, through local and national press, to encourage more people to get involved and make a difference to young lives.
Information for journalists
Email: mediaenquiries@actiontutoring.org.uk
Telephone: 020 3872 5894
May 2022
- Action Tutoring celebrates 10 years of transforming education for disadvantaged young people in Parliament, FE News website
April 2022
- BBC Radio Bristol, interview with Susannah Hardyman and one of our tutors
March 2022
- Action Tutoring’s blog response to the NTP’s change of PP % and group sizes, featured on Schools Week
February 2022
January 2022
- BBC Radio Newcastle, interview with one of our tutors
December 2021
- A Newcastle student has made a pledge to urge people to volunteer as tutors, Newcastle LocalTV and Daily Motion
- The private tuition sector is booming but not yet regulated, so it’s important to check tutor qualifications, inews website
Highlights from previous years
- South Norwood Primary School – The Pioneer Academy, NTP (Dec 2020)
- ‘The importance of harnessing ‘social power’ to help level the educational playing field’, Education Today (Dec 2020)
- ‘Volunteer tutor from Birmingham helping to bridge the attainment gap for disadvantaged children’, Primary Times (Oct 2020)
- ‘The Advantages Of Tutoring For Disadvantaged Children’, Teaching Times (Oct 2020)
- ‘How can school-charity partnerships help tackle lost learning?’, Schools Week (Oct 2020)
- ‘Big concerns’ over Covid catch-up tutor shortage’, TES (Sep 2020)
- BBC Radio 4, Today programme – discussion on catch up provision (Sep 2020)
- BBC1 Politics England, discussion on school closures and the impact on disadvantaged pupils (Jul 2020)
- ITV News, Tyne and Tees, interview with Action Tutoring CEO, partner school and volunteer tutor (Jul 2020)
- ‘Education sector must throw its weight behind NTP‘, TES (Jun 2020)
- BBC Breakfast, BBC News, ITV Lunchtime News, Channel 5 news, interview with Action Tutoring CEO and footage of online tutoring session discussing catch up provision (Jun 2020)
- BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour, discussion on summer schools (Jun 2020)
- Presenting evidence to the Education Select Committee, Parliament TV (Jun 2020)
- ‘Summer schools, home-learning expectations and Ofsted – how experts think pupils can catch up‘ Schools Week (Jun 2020)
- ‘Charities in talks with ministers over tuition pilot‘ Schools Week (May 2020)
- ‘Army of helpers can save futures of vulnerable children‘, Telegraph (Apr 2020)
- ‘Coronavirus will widen the attainment gap‘, SecEd (Apr 2020)
- ‘Government guidelines impacting vulnerable families’, Telegraph (Mar 2020)
