March 2022

National Tutoring Programme

Data guidance

Published 31 March 2022

Description

Summary of starts on courses by pupils and school participation in the National Tutoring Programme.

Coverage

The statistics and data cover England (including regional and local authority breakdowns). Starts on Courses by Pupils are given for 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022. 

File formats and conventions

All files are in .csv format. 

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

NTP course starts March 2022

• Filename: ntp_course_start_data_2022-03-31_v2.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
• Time period: 2021 August to 2022 March
• Content:

  NTP Course Starts for England in 2020 to 2021.; ; NTP Course Starts for England, Regions and Local Authorities in 2021 to 2022, up to March 2022.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
course_starts_by_pupils	Course starts by pupils
ntp_pillar	NTP pillar

Footnotes

1. For starts by pupils on academic mentor courses, we do not hold complete data. We have estimated the number of starts using the data we do hold
2. Figures may not always sum to totals exactly, due to rounding.
3. Estimates regarding school-led tuition and NTP participation in 2021/22 are based on the Educational Settings Status form survey. This survey is not completed by all schools. We assume that non-responding schools resemble responding schools and do not adjust for non-response bias.
4. This figure is for course starts. Pupils may undertake more than one course.
5. Not all schools were eligible for Academic Mentors in 2020/21. Not all schools are eligible for Academic Mentors or School Led Tutoring in 2021/22.

NTP school participation March 2022

• Filename: ntp_school_participation_data_2022-03-31.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
• Time period: 2022 March
• Content:

  NTP School Participation for England, Regions and Local Authorities in 2021 to 2022, up to March 2022.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
ntp_pillar	NTP pillar
schools_participating_since_start_of_academic_year	Percentage of schools participating since start of academic year
total_schools	Total schools

Footnotes

1. Figures may not always sum to totals exactly, due to rounding.
2. The Department for Education or Randstad do not hold data on the location of tutoring for some pupil starts on tuition partner courses in 2021/22. No adjustment of school participation in the tuition partner pillar has been made to account for this.
3. Estimates regarding school-led tuition and NTP participation in 2021/22 are based on the Educational Settings Status form survey. This survey is not completed by all schools. We assume that non-responding schools resemble responding schools and do not adjust for non-response bias.
4. Not all schools were eligible for Academic Mentors in 2020/21. Not all schools are eligible for Academic Mentors or School Led Tutoring in 2021/22.