…study. Harvard University alone saw a 45% increase in applications from 2009-10 to 2010-11. However the majority of UK applicants come from private schools. The programme aims to change that,…
Global Education Rankings Can Be Misleading
…from early years through to Access to the Professions. The report Confusion in the Ranks: How Good are England’s Schools? is available on the Sutton Trust website at www.suttontrust.com/our-work/research/ There…
Improvements in exam results are the best way to evaluate teachers
…report, Testing Teachers: What works best for teacher evaluation and appraisal, is available on the Sutton Trust website at www.suttontrust.com. The research was conducted by Richard Murphy of the Centre…
NFER poll results on teachers spending pupil premium
…completing the survey, a third (36 per cent) said their school now uses the Toolkit compared to only 11 per cent in 2012. By contrast, the proportion of all school…
Londoners most likely to pay for extra tuition as demand remains high
…of students from better off families had received some private tuition, compared to just 15% from less well-off families, based on a family affluence scale. The Sutton Trust’s sister charity,…
Private school premium of £194,000 revealed in new report
…distributed across households incomes: The number of children coming from the top 10 per cent of household incomes would roughly halve; and, The proportion of children coming from the bottom…