…to fund a new student cohort of Sutton Scholars in the East Midlands, a three-year programme for 11-14 year-olds designed to provide early intervention for high-potential students from less advantaged…
ACCESS GAP TO BEST APPRENTICESHIPS
…degrees. There are fewer than 8,000 higher and degree level apprenticeships taken up by young people each year compared to 330,000 taking up degree courses. It is also very concerning…
Pupils miss out on life skills
…of computers in household, whether the family owns a vehicle). Of the total number of 11-16 year olds interviewed, 1,449 were determined to come from ‘high’ affluence backgrounds and 220…
New report warns brightest pupils are being left behind
…The educational charity report, which used figures from tests conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), said Scotland was below the median in reading and mathematics and…
Insights from the Anglosphere
…standard deviation corresponds to about a year’s academic development. The gap in school readiness between children from highly-educated parents and lowly educated parents is about 1 standard deviation in the…
Sir Peter Lampl: Our focus has to be on training better teachers
Sir Peter Lampl wrote for the i newspaper on the PISA results Governments around the globe await the three-yearly PISA results with bated breath. They tell us how well our…