The Sound Foundations researchers write in The Guardian. It is good, as you say, that there is now a political consensus building around the need to offer some childcare from…
Parliament and Policy: June 2014
…MP Alex Cunningham and Conservative children’s minister Liz Truss on child care. Click here to view the discussion. 18 June – The Education Select Committee report The Education Select Committee…
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…
Early childcare must be top-quality
…addresses neither the child development nor child poverty aims. We have therefore recommended the government delay its planned expansion of free places for two-year-olds and focus on improving the quality…
Early years focus is right but it needs proper investment
…other.” This is because of the phenomenal growth in brain development and the huge opportunities to develop speech, communication and trigger positive and inquisitive play. Read the full article here….
Admissions lotteries and banding on the rise in secondaries, report reveals
…most academically successful comprehensives” Read the full article here. ITV Daybreak (1.50) also covered the story, interviewing Lee Elliot Major – Director of Development and Policy at the Sutton Trust….