…for higher levels of attendance, behaviour and homework led to increased effort in the classroom. … The latest study, which was commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation, a government-funded charity,…
Sir Peter Lampl: Why should only rich kids grow up to be judges?
…Court judges come from private schools, compared with only 7 per cent of the population; half of them were at boarding schools, where less than 1 per cent of pupils…
Sir Peter Lampl: How we fail our students
Sir Peter Lampl wrote for The Times on new university access benchmarks. TODAY’S news that the number of students from state schools going to 13 leading universities has increased by…
The Vocational Challenge
…focused on admission to the top universities – were offering BTEC courses, compared with 82 per cent of non-selective state schools and colleges. Ms Curnock-Cook said she expected the take-up…
Payback Time for Graduates
…£9,000 a year, it said it was making hard choices. Students would have to repay higher fees as graduates because the Government could no longer afford to subsidise their teaching…
Lotteries ‘used more’ to decide on school places
…using banding increased from 95 in 2008 to 121 in the past academic year. On top of that, 42 schools were using lotteries – also known as random allocation. However,…