…than 2,000 comprehensives and colleges nationally. More worrying is the career prospects gap. Our research shows 60 per cent of leaders in the financial services sector are from independent schools,…
Baby Bonds: researchers respond to criticism
…as Furedi puts it, “more opportunities for children, and indeed parents, to realise their potential.” Furedi offers no evidence to counter our empirical finding – from a review of over…
Parliament and Policy: February 2014
…Sutton Trust report, “The Reading Gap”, from July 2013. It showed that boys aged 15 from disadvantaged backgrounds are some two and a half years behind their counterparts from the…
Is Michael Gove correct that the private and state school gap has narrowed significantly?
…entry into Oxbridge and other elite universities. One Sutton Trust study found that four independent schools and one college had more Oxbridge entrants than 2,000 comprehensives and colleges nationally. More…
40% of children are at risk of developing literacy problems because they don’t bond with their parents
…risk behaviours leading to criminal activity in adolescence and also obesity. The report, by a trio of academics – Sophie Moullin, from Princeton University, Jane Waldfogel, from Columbia and the…