…financial difficulties https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/a-third-of-nurseries-in-the-most-disadvantaged-areas-may-be-forced-to-close-due-to-financial-difficulties/ Early years in crisis: impact of the pandemic on sector https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/early-years-in-crisis/ 3 Key Findings 1 light-green 1 Early Education Provision • Despite aspirational statements on closing the…
OFFA and Sutton Trust launch project to research the impact of outreach
…expenditure. OFFA is currently assessing access agreements for 2017-18. The strategic guidance for these access agreements (https://www.offa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/strategic-access-agreement-guidance.pdf) asked universities and colleges to take account of the latest evidence and consider…
Missing Talent
…GCSE https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/over-a-third-of-clever-but-poor-boys-significantly-underachieve-at-gcse/ Lee Elliot Major: Missing talent – how to stop bright kids falling behind (Prospect Magazine) https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/lee-elliot-major-missing-talent-how-to-stop-bright-kids-falling-behind/ Key Findings 1 pink 1 15% of highly able pupils who score…
White working class pupils least likely to attend grammars, new Sutton Trust research find JAMS also underrepresented
…under-represented at grammar schools. Using the IDACI index (Income Deprivation Affecting Children), researchers compared entry to selective schools from the most deprived to the least deprived fifth of neighbourhoods. They…
At age 13, girls more likely than boys to believe that going to university is important
…neighbourhood disadvantage based on home address post code that measure ‘place’ poverty, including the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) and the Index of Multiple Deprivation – (IMD). IDACI represents…
White working class boys from poor neighbourhoods unlikely to do A-levels
…home address postcode – the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) and the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) – were added to the EPPSE dataset. For social disadvantage, the researchers…