Conor Ryan considers the lessons from this week’s report by the Independent Commission on Fees. Students are well into the first year of higher tuition fees. While 54,000 fewer young…
Race to the Top
…Watford Grammar School for Boys 7% Durham Johnston Comprehensive School 7% Mossbourne Community Academy 7% The Highfield School 6% Sir John Lawes School 6% Lady Margaret School 6% Matthew Arnold…
Lotteries used to break middle-class hold on school places
…of children face losing the automatic right to a place at their local secondary school amid a surge in the number of comprehensives using lottery-style admissions policies. Figures show that…
Top teachers needed to help poor white pupils
…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…