Yahoo! News quotes the Sutton Trust is their report on the cabinet reshuffle. Theresa May’s cabinet has the lowest proportion of ministers who went to private school in more than…
Private tutors ‘must face criminal records checks’
BBC News citing our Private tuition polling 2015. All self-employed tutors should be legally required to have a criminal records check before they can offer private lessons to children in…
Academy trusts ‘no better than councils’
…substantially below the national average for attainment and improvement” for children from poorer families. Read the full report here. The Trust report was also featured on 5 Live news bulletins….
Schools offset cuts with funds meant for disadvantaged pupils, study says
Marie Cahalane reports on our pupil premium polling. A “growing” number of schools are using their funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts elsewhere, new polling shows. BT News…
Pupil Premium: money matters, but nothing more than the teacher
…expensive and doomed effort, and, anyway, schools in challenging areas already received significant funding to reflect the needs of the communities they serve. I’ve always been more of an optimist,…
Sathnam Sanghera: We got rid of empire, now we must fight for social equality
…British calls “the supercilious vanity” of the Foreign Office to our internationalism (three quarters of Brits have passports, compared with less than a third of Americans), tabloid jingoism, food, clothing,…