Hannah Richardson reported for BBC News on a successful Education Endowment Foundation trial on philosophy in primary schools. Weekly philosophy sessions in class can boost primary school pupils’ ability in…
Budget 2015: Student maintenance grants scrapped
…have a fundamental review of the repayments system.” Read the full article here. Further coverage Sir Peter’s comment was also covered in print by the Times, Guardian, Independent, I newspaper,…
Parents are ‘clueless narcissists’, says headmaster
Javier Espinoza cited the Sutton Trust Baby Bonds report in a news piece on a speech by Sir Anthony Seldon Too many parents are ‘clueless narcissists’ damaging their children with…
Science made simple
…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…