…entry into Oxbridge and other elite universities. One Sutton Trust study found that four independent schools and one college had more Oxbridge entrants than 2,000 comprehensives and colleges nationally. More…
Early childcare must be top-quality
…addresses neither the child development nor child poverty aims. We have therefore recommended the government delay its planned expansion of free places for two-year-olds and focus on improving the quality…
Admissions lotteries and banding on the rise in secondaries, report reveals
…to. … Conor Ryan, the Sutton Trust’s director of research and communications, said it was “encouraging that more schools and academies are using banding and ballots as a way to…
Poor parent-child bonding ‘hampers learning’
…so parents can develop such crucial bonds. The study focuses on the application of the theory of attachment – a key theory in child development and psychology. This says the…
Parents who are struggling to bond with their babies need more help
…reliable source of comfort. As a result, about four in ten young children don’t bond fully with a parent, developing what psychologists call an insecure attachment. Without mums or dads…
Parents should get more help to bond with their child, says report
…quickly identify and offer support to parents who are failing to bond with their children in order to head off serious educational and social problems in later life, a new…