…this area improved by three months. Interestingly, there was an association between greater use of the computer games and greater impact of the intervention, suggesting the computer games are important….
Cameron’s new cabinet: half of PM’s top team went to private school
…election. It found that 32% of MPs the post-election House of Commons are privately educated, with around half (48%) of Conservative MPs attending fee-paying schools, compared with 14% of Liberal…
More women, more ethnic minorities, but one-third of MPs have still been privately-educated
…2010. But it’s not all good news. Research from the Sutton Trust shows the educational background of the Commons has hardly changed. Almost a third (32 per cent) of MPs…
Church schools move towards open door selection
Caroline Wyatt cited Sutton Trust research in a BBC News report on moves towards fairer admissions in Church of England schools. We’ve been praying a lot recently,” admits one 40-something…
Poor children more likely to succeed in South, says study
Sarah Cassidy reported for The Independent and the I newspapers on the Sutton Trust social mobility index. Children from poor backgrounds are more likely to succeed in life if they…
Race in 21st-century Britain
…of newspaper columnists. Incredibly, one in seven judges went to just five independent schools: Eton, Westminster, Radley, Charterhouse or St Paul’s Boys. I sometimes suspect that the reason I made…