Nicola Woolcock reported on our Caught Out brief for The Times State schools are selecting middle-class children by using overly complicated admissions criteria, experts say. Hundreds of thousands of families…
Call to tighten admissions to primaries as over 1,500 are shown to be highly socially selective
…The Sutton Trust has previously published research on admissions to comprehensive schools highlighting the social selectivity of some comprehensives and grammar schools. See Selective Comprehensives and Poor Grammar. Our Parent…
Primary selection
…all – London boroughs and in areas outside London where there are strong faith-based, particularly Catholic, state schools. There does seem to be a higher propensity for some academies and…
Ofsted calls for ‘battlers’ to be new breed of headteacher
…and battle-axes“ to be appointed to run state secondary schools “to fight for better standards”. Too many secondary school heads are putting up with pupils whose uniforms were “all over…
Hadley Freeman: So the privately educated are the new underclass? Spare me the sob story
…a year for more than the cute uniforms. First, a Durham University study found that independently educated students gain a boost equivalent to two extra years of schooling compared with…
Access to the top
…spent in law (Justin Madders), a director of a unit in the civil service (Baroness Tyler), financial services and armed forces (Flick Drummond) – professions that are arguably even more…