…Trust/EEF toolkit. To counter this point Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner MP, former Education Select Committee Chair Barry Sheerman and former schools minister and Education Select Committee member Stephen Timms…
Behind the Isle of Wight ‘ghetto’ headlines is an extremely complex educational picture
…initiatives that combined so detrimentally for the island’s teachers and pupils. Perhaps if any good can come out of his faux pas, it might be that island pupils share more…
At age 13, girls more likely than boys to believe that going to university is important
…their more advantaged peers, with only 27% having high aspirations compared with 39% of their better off peers. The researchers found that even in Year 9 (age 13/14) girls had…
Sir Peter Lampl comments on Knowsley A-levels issue
Commenting on reports that Knowsley schools may offer no A-level courses in future, Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust said today: “It is important that young people have…
Parents face ‘complex’ school criteria
…schools tend to be faith-based, with religious families coming from higher social groups, it added. Researchers compared the social make-up of schools with their local areas. They identified the schools…
Alun Ebenezer: Tomorrow’s leaders must come from outside gilded cage of fee-paying schools
Free school head Alun Ebenezer cites Leading People research in a Telegraph online comment piece As recently reported, top fee-paying schools may be pricing themselves beyond the reach of their…