…The Mirror reported: Playing computer games in maths lessons can help to boost pupils’ numeracy skills, research suggests. Giving youngsters a series of games designed to engage them in the…
The House of Commons will stay posh until we bring back grammar schools
Writing for The Telegraph, Harry Mount discusses the implication of the findings of recent Sutton Trust research on the background of election candidates. The House of Commons is going to…
Aspiration must be more than a bolt on
…We’re lucky at my school to have parents who work in health care, a terrific clerk who is Company Secretary for the local NHS Trust, former students who could come…
Transport Select Committee hearing on school transport
The Sutton Trust gave evidence to the House of Commons’ Transport Select Committee on home to school transport. Tessa Stone, the Trust’s Director, told the all-party committee of MPs that…
Call for cross party commission to increase social mobility in the UK
…schools take in pupils from less wealthy homes; and make sure our top comprehensives play fair when it comes to admissions. “Both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have acknowledged the…
Harvard to host Sutton Trust summer school students as US programme expands
…make them a hugely attractive option for British students.” J Jeffry Louis, chair of the Fulbright Commission, said, “The US-UK Fulbright Commission is delighted to have Harvard University as a…