A university-led nationwide tutoring programme in schools could help hundreds of thousands of poorer pupils progress, it has been claimed, after a pilot study showed that help from undergraduates led to a 100 per cent improvement in children's basic writing skills. Year 8 pupils who had been struggling in their English lessons at St James School in Exeter were offered tutoring sessions in small groups during the autumn term of 2022, thanks to a partnership with the . Assessments testing the 18 pupils' ability to write accurate sentences were taken before and after the nine-week intervention, with the average score of all who took part improving from 10.

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