…schools tend to be faith-based, with religious families coming from higher social groups, it added. Researchers compared the social make-up of schools with their local areas. They identified the schools…
Alun Ebenezer: Tomorrow’s leaders must come from outside gilded cage of fee-paying schools
Free school head Alun Ebenezer cites Leading People research in a Telegraph online comment piece As recently reported, top fee-paying schools may be pricing themselves beyond the reach of their…
Sutton Trust commits to Living Wage
…well-known companies such as Nationwide, Aviva and SSE. These businesses recognise that clinging to the national minimum wage is not good for business. Customers expect better than that.” To find…
Nick Clegg says that the Sutton Trust inspired his passion for social mobility
…Mobility Committee this month. The House of Lords Committee on Social Mobility was appointed in June “to consider social mobility in the transition from school to work”. The Committee is…
Sutton Trust comment on Thursday’s OFFA report into access agreements
Commenting on the Office for Fair Access’ latest report into access agreements, Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said today: Today’s report…
Two-thirds of new MPs went to comprehensives, research finds
The TES included Sutton Trust research in an article on the new MPs. Almost two-thirds of the new entrants to the House of Commons were educated at comprehensive schools, making…