We are pleased to welcome five new appointments to the charity’s Board of Trustees, including Michele Sutton CBE as Chair. Together they join the three founding trustees to form the Get Further Board.
Read about Get Further’s partnership with Bradford College in the Telegraph and Argus.
Get Further founder, Sarah Waite, writes for the Association of Colleges setting out how lost learning could be addressed in the coming years.
This year, Get Further has scaled its work ten-fold to meet the increased need for extra support in education.
Now that GCSEs have been cancelled, too many Year 11 pupils are being ignored. In September, they will need more support than ever.
Andy Ratcliffe, the Chief Executive of Impetus-PEF, describes Get Further as an intervention with “exciting potential” in a recent article for the TES.
Get Further founder Sarah Waite examines how low-level English and maths is a serious barrier to social mobility.
The Get Further scheme will link former teachers with college students for mentoring to help them pass English and maths.
Get Further founder Sarah Waite and TES columnist Sarah Simons discuss ways to get more teachers into further education.