…and the support of a “critical friend” in the form of support and guidance from a team led by Professor Kathy Sylva at the University of Oxford’s Department of Education….
Alan Steer: How can we improve schools? It’s simple. Leave it to teachers
…of excellence to compare with any in the world – and standards today are incomparably higher than 40 years ago. A far wider section of society now benefits from a…
Poorer pupils are much less likely to study at top universities like Oxford and Cambridge
The Sunday Express quotes Lee Elliot Major in an article by Matthew Davis on Oxbridge admissions. Just 40 children who take free school meals end up at Oxford or Cambridge…
Trust me, school culture counts
…they chanted lines from the famous American song Frankie and Johnny, a tragic tale of love, betrayal and murder. In another class a teacher excitedly showed us live progress graphs…
Unpaid internships ‘favour the rich’
…paid at least minimum wage. … Dr Lee Elliot Major, the trust’s director of development and policy, said taking an unpaid internship was “beyond the means of the vast majority…
Act now on social mobility, or Britain will freewheel into a permanently divided country
…social and emotional development. At five, when starting school, children from poorer homes are already a year behind their more advantaged counterparts. At 16, children from poorer backgrounds (measured by…