Pupils to be offered 100m hours of tuition in Covid catch-up plan

Government's 1.4bn programme of tutoring courses won't be enough, warns its education recovery tsar

Pupils will be offered an extra 100m hours of tuition under post-pandemic catch-up plans unveiled today - but the government faced immediate criticism of the 1.4bn programme, with its own tsar warning more will be needed".

After months of unprecedented school closures, 1.4bn will be spent on up to 6m sets of 15-hour tutoring courses for disadvantaged pupils as well as an expansion of an existing fund for helping 16- to 19-year-olds with subjects such as English and maths, the Department for Education (DfE) said.