…from lower SEB, compared with 17% of accountants and 15% of management consultants. However, these percentages all indicate low diversity compared with the wider workforce, where in this dataset 29%…
A comprehensive victory?
…we improve representation in the Commons? With the privately educated so over-represented in politics, what can be done to level the playing field? Improving political education in comprehensive schools is…
Sutton Trust response to the Education Select Committee report on grammar schools
Commenting on today’s report on grammar schools from the Education Select Committee, Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Chairman of the Sutton Trust and Chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation, said:…
Sir Peter Lampl and Sir Kevan Collins respond to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s annual report
Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: “Alan Milburn and his commission are absolutely right to urge ambitious measures to boost social…
TOP COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS MORE SOCIALLY SELECTIVE THAN GRAMMAR SCHOOLS
…socially selective schools in the country, 91 were comprehensives, eight were grammars and there was one secondary modern. The 100 comprehensive schools with the least advantaged intakes seem to be…
COMPREHENSIVE PUPILS OUTPERFORM INDEPENDENT AND GRAMMAR PUPILS IN UNIVERSITY DEGREES
Students from comprehensive schools are likely to achieve higher class degrees at university than independent and grammar school students with similar A-levels and GCSE results, a major study commissioned by…