…schools will be judged for the first time not on the proportion gaining five good GCSEs, but on the more complex Progress 8 measure (as well as English and Maths…
England’s level playing field
…apparent that half of England’s cricket team were privately educated. So how do football’s finest compare? The table below details the schools attended by England’s players. It shows that in…
Apprenticeships
…significant imbalance between the number of young people taking up degree-level apprenticeships in comparison to those beginning undergraduate degrees. pink pink basic pink block-5d12fd9b-afed-4055-a8f7-80fc62c27acf block-9d6f8e4a-6008-450b-8129-d80d9520eefb block-55fd2f63-d8e2-4291-92bf-a11926464526 block-4537dcd1-b1f8-4934-90ae-14113542baa7 block-ee15bcdd-c776-4433-8423-efa15df1f9c2 block-244471f7-d735-4362-8dbd-5550e94c993d block-ea37c494-a9be-4c73-b911-3e28e82e0dec…
New £1m fund to find the best ways of working with parents to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children
…led by not- for- profit organisations, aimed at improving children’s cognitive development through parental engagement, for up to three years. It will complement the work of the Education Endowment Foundation…
Teaching matters more than setting
…not subliminally to suggest to children that no amount of effort will change your academic prospects. Setting, delivered in an inflexible way with little movement between groupings, is the death…
Social Mobility and COVID-19
Report Overview The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are far reaching and are likely to impact on practically every area of government policy for a long time to come. This…