Get Further
Unlocking brighter futures through resitting of GCSEs
Get Further’s GCSE Resit Tuition Programme facilitates tutoring of people in small groups to help them resit and pass their maths and English GCSEs, at no cost to them.
One in three pupils leave school without a standard pass (grade 4 or above) in GCSE English and maths – more than 200,000 16-year-olds each year. This figure rises to more than one in two for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Less than three in 10 of these individuals go on to study beyond GCSE level the following year, and they are nine times more likely to go on to become NEET (not in education, employment or training). Missing a pass by just one grade has long-term consequences, reducing lifetime earnings by an average of £73,062 for GSCE maths and £47,355 for English.
Get Further’s GSCE Resit Programme began in 2018 with a small pilot of 31 maths students, and has now scaled significantly thanks to the building of strong partnerships with more than 70 further education colleges across England. Students are targeted for the programme if they meet certain criteria of disadvantage and are tutored in groups of three or fewer over 15 to 30 sessions. Tutors are supported through webinars, self-study resources and ongoing feedback.
Since 2018, the charity has tutored 6,000 individuals, with 4,300 of these in the last three years. Get Further students have made five times more progress than the national average progress made by GCSE resit students. Maths pass rates were 70% higher than the national average, and English pass rates 76% higher.
The programme is now being evaluated through a randomised control trial with the Education Endowment Foundation, which will allow it to support an additional 4,100 students in 2025/26.
Charity Awards judge Shane Ryan, senior adviser at the National Lottery Community Fund, said Get Further’s focus on the further education sector, which is often overlooked by educational interventions despite serving a high proportion of disadvantaged students, demonstrates a commitment to addressing inequality.
“Their success in dramatically narrowing the attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their peers is particularly noteworthy, and the programme’s rapid scaling from a pilot of 31 to thousands of students shows ambition and effective implementation.”
CC Reg. no. 1190809
