…Court and Appeals Court judges, nearly three quarters attended private schools, as did over half of the top 100 news journalists and over two-thirds of British Oscar winners. Over four…
Growth in unpaid full-time internships raises fears for social mobility
Rob Davies and Elena Creci cited Sutton Trust research and Conor Ryan is quoted in a Guardian news feature on internships. “Unless you have private means, or have access to…
Money Matters
…to support heads to spend their newly designated pupil premium funds in the most effective ways. Education funding cuts are rarely out of the news. Recent research from the Institute…
Mind the Gap
…could be trialled in the Opportunity Areas announced recently by Justine Greening. It is not all bad news. There is evidence that the gap has been narrowing in primary schools…
Over four in ten state school teachers rarely or never advise bright pupils to apply to Oxbridge
…their bright pupils to apply and a quarter (28%) said they usually did, according to new polling published by the Sutton Trust. The news comes ahead of Saturday’s Oxbridge applications…
‘More Rio medal winners were state-school educated’
BBC News online reported on our analysis of the background of Team GB Olympic medallists The proportion of Team GB medal winners who were state-school educated has grown since London…