…2017, covering 38 weeks of the year with an additional 15 hours for disadvantaged 2-year-olds. There was also the additional £44m in investment for 2021-22 to enable local authorities to…
Another omnishambles? Inequality and A-level results in 2021
…(20.7%, compared to 18.6% last year), gaps between groups have widened. This is due to surge in entrants from areas already well represented in higher education, with the entry rate…
2020, Covid-19 and the prospects for social mobility
…played its part. But state school intakes are just one measure. We know that on other metrics – which communities and schools students are drawn from, as well as how…
England leads way on access to selective universities, but lessons to learn from other countries
Two new reports, published today by the Sutton Trust, look at how the UK compares globally when it comes to approaches to widen access to higher education. The first analyses…
Widening access to tutoring
…are out, private school pupils are twice as likely to take part in weekly online lessons than those in state schools, and even within the state sector there is huge…
Parents and teachers think school admissions needs to be fairer
…school admissions. For 15 years the Sutton Trust has analysed the social make-up of the top-performing comprehensives. Last year the Trust’s research found that the highest performing schools accept around…