Nov 23, 2020 | The Access Project, Tutors & Volunteering
At The Access Project we are always striving to provide the highest quality resources to our tutors so they can make each session they prepare for their students amazing. In our tutor training and handbook we have signposted a few particularly good websites and...
Oct 22, 2020 | The Access Project, Tutors & Volunteering
In Black History Month new TAP tutor Josh explains how a sense of injustice prompted him to volunteer and how historic inequalities still act as a barrier to social mobility… My name is Josh and this will be my first year tutoring with TAP. This charity makes a...
Sep 9, 2020 | The Access Project, Tutors & Volunteering
It’s time for a change and we have an announcement to make! But first let’s wind back the clock… In 2016 The Access Project identified a need to expand our work into the East Midlands, but we couldn’t recruit enough tutors in a social mobility coldspot. That’s when...
Jun 19, 2020 | Partnerships, Students, The Access Project, Tutors & Volunteering
Plans for a national tutoring programme to be unveiled BBC News BBC News featured The Access Project when Year 12 student Nana spoke eloquently about the difference that tutoring is making to her life. Pupils who have fallen behind during school closures are expected...
Apr 30, 2020 | The Access Project, Tutors & Volunteering
Ellen Coughlan is a Programme Manager for Analytical Capability at The Health Foundation and also tutors a TAP student in Biology. “…they’re called The Access Project”. Ordinarily, staff updates that come under “Any Other Business” are listened to impatiently with one...
Apr 7, 2020 | Students, The Access Project, Tutors & Volunteering
In his annual message to Congress in 1863, Abraham Lincoln famously observed: “the occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew”. As we face the threat of the coronavirus pandemic,...
