Erica Stanford: Education Minister on the Government's new 'intensive' maths tutoring programme - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

The Government is trialling an intensive maths tutoring programme to pick up students falling behind.

It'll run over the first two terms of next year, for about 2,000 Year 7 and 8 pupils.

The trial will use small-group tutoring and supervised online tuition for 30 minutes, up to four times a week.

Education Minister Erica Stanford says it's the first of its kind. 

"This is going to be a hybrid model, where we have some young people learn in groups of four just with a tutor - and then we'll have a hybrid model where we've got that happening, plus some online learning using a maths programme." 

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