May 2022

National Tutoring Programme

Data guidance

Published 26 May 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. 

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 May 2022

• Filename: ntp_course_start_data_2022-05-26_final_v2.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
• Time period: 2021 August to 2022 May
• 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 May 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
flag_1_response_rate_50_or_less	Is the response rate 50 percent or less
flag_2_num_schools_responded_10_or_less	Is the number of schools that responded 10 or less
ntp_pillar	NTP pillar
num_schools_responded_edset	Number of Schools That Responded to SLT Questions on Edset
percent_schools_responded_to_edset	Percentage of schools responding to SLT Questions on Edset
total_schools	Total schools

Footnotes

1. When using this data, please see our data tables (by clicking ‘Explore Data’) for the Educational Setting Status Form response rate associated with school led tutoring statistics and the flags on the number of responses and the response rate.
2. This figure is for course starts. Individual pupils may undertake more than one course.
3. Figures may not always sum to totals exactly, due to rounding.
4. Estimates regarding school participation and starts made on courses by pupils on school-led tuition and NTP in 2021/22 are based on the Educational Setting 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. Because we have to infer what non-responding schools are doing from responding schools, estimates are uncertain. Local Authority estimates are often derived from small samples and should therefore be treated with caution, particularly when comparing against previous estimates. Please see methodology for more details and flags in data tables.
5. 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.
6. 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 Participation Data May 2022

• Filename: ntp_school_participation_data_2022-05-26_final_v3.csv
• Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
• Time period: 2022 May
• Content:

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

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
flag_1_response_rate_50_or_less	Is the response rate 50 percent or less
flag_2_num_schools_responded_10_or_less	Is the number of schools that responded 10 or less
ntp_pillar	NTP pillar
num_schools_responded_edset	Number of Schools That Responded to SLT Questions on Edset
percent_schools_responded_to_edset	Percentage of schools responding to SLT Questions on Edset
schools_participating_since_start_of_academic_year	Percentage of schools participating since start of academic year
total_schools	Total schools

Footnotes

1. When using this data, please see our data tables (by clicking ‘Explore Data’) for the Educational Setting Status Form response rate associated with school led tutoring statistics and the flags on the number of responses and the response rate.
2. Figures may not always sum to totals exactly, due to rounding.
3. Estimates regarding school participation and starts made on courses by pupils on school-led tuition and NTP in 2021/22 are based on the Educational Setting 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. Because we have to infer what non-responding schools are doing from responding schools, estimates are uncertain. Local Authority estimates are often derived from small samples and should therefore be treated with caution, particularly when comparing against previous estimates. Please see methodology for more details and flags in data tables.
4. 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.
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.