…of excellence to compare with any in the world – and standards today are incomparably higher than 40 years ago. A far wider section of society now benefits from a…
Poorer pupils are much less likely to study at top universities like Oxford and Cambridge
…director of policy and development at educational charity the Sutton Trust, said: “Our research shows that getting to top universities makes all the difference to getting a good job. “All…
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
…internships last longer than 12 months. Less than 3% think internships lasting longer than a month should be completely unpaid. The new research brief, Internship or Indenture examines the cost…
Reform in haste and education pays the price
…to worms. A Sutton Trust report has pointed out that while average attainment soon rose, that often corresponded exactly with a change in intake, the proportion of pupils on free…