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Enabling the able

…represents a ‘lost 65,000′, many of whom should be university-bound, including to the most selective institutions. This latest research echoed a study commissioned by the Sutton Trust from Alan Smithers,…

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Jeremy Hodgen: We need maths to age 18 now

…and the like do need much more advanced mathematics. But, for most others, what’s needed is a better understanding of how to use, make sense of and communicate with the…

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Nature and nurture

…argued that the whole idea of splitting traits such as IQ into separate components of heredity and environment is scientifically indefensible: we are the product of the complex dance in…