…that the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has funded, trialled and evaluated in 42 primary schools across the UK. Over a year, the programme provides five professional development sessions to two…
Lee Elliot Major: Respect for teachers is essential for society
…significant for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. Over a school year, these pupils gain the equivalent of a year and a half of learning with very effective teachers, whereas the same…
Trust me, school culture counts
…of all his Year 10 pupils as they crouched over their computers creating Javascript code. In a room on the roof of the school with windows looking up to the…
Unpaid internships ‘favour the rich’
…paid at least minimum wage. … Dr Lee Elliot Major, the trust’s director of development and policy, said taking an unpaid internship was “beyond the means of the vast majority…
Nearly a third of graduate interns are unpaid, each spending £926 a month to work for free
…of financial and professional services internships advertised on the Graduate Talent Pool website were unpaid. Dr Lee Elliot Major, Director of Development and Policy at the Sutton Trust said; “Unpaid…
Reform in haste and education pays the price
…schools removed from local authorities and run by “sponsors”. The academy idea was to break patterns of low expectation and encourage innovative teaching (although, of course, without relaxing central government…