“Every year, 200,000 students – disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrounds – miss out on crucial English and maths qualifications, locking them out of many university courses, apprenticeships and key professions for life. By pairing these students with subject-qualified graduate tutors, we believe that the Get Further programme provides a second chance for young people to achieve these gateway qualifications. The disruption to education from COVID-19 has meant that the catch-up tuition they deliver is needed now more than ever. Having been selected as one of the 2020 Award Winners to receive an additional two years of support, we look forward to working with Get Further to implement their ambitious 3-year strategy and prepare for a Random Control Trial to better understand their impact.
Siwan Davies, Director of Scaling Impact at the Fair Education Alliance
About Get Further
Get Further provides innovative catch-up tuition to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds studying in further education. Our tuition programme is delivered by subject-specialist graduates, who are trained by expert English and maths teachers. Students who complete the programme join our alumni network, where they are signposted to opportunities and receive support with the transition into higher study and work.
Get Further launched in 2018, after winning the Teach First Innovation Award – a nationwide competition to find the best new ideas to tackle education inequality. Since then, they have scaled to now deliver English and maths tuition sessions to over 1,700 students across 20 colleges in five regions across England.
The disruption to education from COVID-19 has meant that the catch-up tuition we deliver is needed now more than ever. Over the coming two academic years, we aim to expand our programmes to new geographic regions, double our reach and invest in impact and evaluation so we can better understand our impact. We are delighted to have the support of the FEA Scaling Award to achieve this – in particular, harnessing the breadth of experience from across the FEA network to support the development of our three-year strategy.