…region can benefit from an array of options presented before them. Sadly, the opposite appears to be the case. New research from the educational charity, the Sutton Trust, finds that…
End the ‘postcode lottery’ of career guidance, urges Sutton Trust
…English secondary schools and colleges using data held by the Department for Education on attainment, attendance and progression. In addition 14 school case studies and six expert interviews were conducted…
James Turner: Making moves on social mobility
…that can be taken to improve things. There is certainly a case for intervening early on, getting young people from poorer homes used to the idea that a professional career…
Peter Lampl: Tried and tested – it’s social mobility in action
Sir Peter Lampl makes the case for Open Access to independent day schools in The Times. We need all schools to provide an education which matches the best in the…
Lotteries should decide secondary school admissions, parents say
…to a new poll. The research by social-mobility charity the Sutton Trust found that, given the case of an oversubscribed comprehensive school, 28 per cent of parents wanted all places…
High graduate debt state-side is rare and considered highly undesirable
…someone who had to specialise much too early, as is the case with the English system, that strikes me as a pretty good principle. But it is also on student…