Mark Ellis reports on our pupil premium polling. The pupil premium funding is supposed to help the education of poorer kids but the system is struggling to make ends meet….
Sutton Trust response to the government’s consultation on introducing a National Funding Formula
…strongly welcome the intention that the pupil premium will continue to operate through the separate pupil premium grant and will be unaffected by the proposals in this consultation. We believe…
Sutton Trust brought up in debate on attainment gap in Scottish Parliament
…called for the SNP led Scottish Government to introduce a Scottish Pupil Premium. SNP Education Minister Angela Constance said that the evidence on the effect of the Pupil Premium in…
Parliament and Policy: July 2014
…immediately when they come to school because they do not have the back-up from home and the community.” —- Graham Stuart MP (Con, Beverley and Holderness), Chairman of the Education…
Poor mentoring can be worse than no mentoring, new teachers’ toolkit reveals
…per pupil they receive for each disadvantaged youngster on their roll through the Pupil Premium. The Premium is set to rise to £900 next year, and is likely in to…
The Educational Backgrounds of Government Ministers in 2010
…six in ten (60%) Ministers went to independent schools, which educate just 7% of the school population. This compares with half (50%) of backbench MPs from the Liberal Democrat and…