CAREERS EDUCATION REMAINS PATCHY DESPITE RECENT IMPROVEMENTS Less than a third of 17- and 18-year-olds have completed work experience. Nearly a third of state school teachers say they don’t have…
Sutton Trust and EEF response to education recovery package
…adequate technology for all of their pupils. Nearly double the number of middle-class children are completing 5 hours of schoolwork per day, compared to their working-class peers. The report recommended…
Young peoples’ prospects impacted by Covid and new Employer Guidance from Sutton Trust
…To complement this work, and add detail to some of the most common questions asked by employers, last week the Sutton Trust also published Social mobility in the workplace, an…
Knowing the right people more important than a university degree
…social and ethnic background. University was deemed less important for young people from the least affluent families (61% compared with 67% in ‘high affluence’ households), and white pupils (62% compared…
Elitist Britain: Segregation in schooling & privileged pathways to power
…still producing better results than comprehensives.[4] Here comes the market Change was initiated under the Conservatives with their belief that competition through a market ideology could drive up standards in…
Two-thirds of academy chains perform below average for disadvantaged pupils
…little to suggest that the Regional Schools Commissioners are having any success in bringing about improvement. There is little to suggest that the Regional Schools Commissioners are having any success…