Education Secretary Ed Balls today re-iterated the government’s commitment to personal tuition for students falling behind in literacy and numeracy, reported today by the BBC.
The £315m already allocated to the scheme would be disbursed amongst the local education authorities. Parents who felt their children were falling through the cracks, and not getting the needed additional help, would be able to appeal via the courts.
As the BBC reports, this system will build on the ‘making good progress’ pilots, which to date have involved:
…short, sharp bursts of intensive one-to-one tuition on top of normal schooling. Typically children have been signed up for 10 hours of personal tuition.
Classes could run either during or outside school hours, a DCSF spokeswoman said.
It would be immodest to suggest that Maths-Whizz is THE ANSWER TO ED BALLS’ PRAYERS, but it’s incumbent on us to point out that, with our online Tutoring Plus service Balls, Brown, et. al. might get a lot more bang for their buck, and achieve much the same improvement in struggling student maths scores, as if they employed breathing human tutors.
The terms of the tutoring boost sessions described above, including the fact that children would be able to learn in-school or out-, are a good fit with the Maths-Whizz method – which allows students to log on anywhere, anytime, for quick sessions on the maths tutor.
We hope Balls is listening…
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