…in struggling schools to tackle underachievement by poor, white, working-class children, a committee of MPs has recommended. A report by the Commons education committee said that white British children from…
Independent school education found to boost grades and earnings
…found that only 7.6% of those who went to state schools were earning over £70,000 a year in their thirties, compared to 18.2% of those who attended independent schools under…
The Educational backgrounds of 500 leading figures
…chief executives of FTSE companies are now non-British and were thus educated abroad. Just under a third of CEOs are currently from abroad, compared with less than one in ten…
Thousands of state school pupils shun top degree
…pupils from top performing independent schools on average make twice as many applications to leading research universities than their peers from state comprehensive schools with similar average A- level results….
Less than half of state teachers would advise their most able pupils to apply to Oxbridge
…teachers to advise their pupils in this way: 26 per cent said they always do, compared with 14 per cent of classroom teachers, and 36 per cent said they usually…
Major initiative tackles diversity in the real estate industry
…Savills, Strutt & Parker, as well as property company Redevco. Nicole Gillham, Executive Director, Reading Real Estate Foundation said, ‘We’re delighted British Land and the Sutton Trust have enabled this…