…However, the report also shows that in secondary education, independent school teachers are more likely than state school teachers to possess a postgraduate degree. In many subjects, including the shortage…
Parliament and Policy: April and June 2015
…GCSE than their peers. These children, who showed such early promise, have been let down by our failure to offer every pupil the chance to benefit from a core academic…
Election consensus and challenges
…explain why this week’s Comres poll for ITV showed that only 7% of the public saw ‘improving the education system’ as a big priority for government, ranking it last behind…
Tanith Carey: If there’s one thing I’ve learnt from tutors
…oasis of calm as I could wish for on a Sunday morning. With two minutes to go before the weekly visit of the tutor, it was a race against time…
Sir Peter Lampl: Fees are too high, and they do put students off
…allow English universities to treble tuition fees to £9,000 from next month. The Independent Commission on Fees, chaired by Will Hutton, on which I sit, was established to monitor the…
High graduate debt state-side is rare and considered highly undesirable
…than their British counterpart, typically spending two years taking a broad subject mix before majoring in one or possibly two subjects. At Harvard an admissions officer told me that a…