Commenting on the education announcements in today’s Budget, Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Chairman of the Sutton Trust and Chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: “We welcome the Chancellor’s…
Sutton Trust influences grammar schools debate
…Trust/EEF toolkit. To counter this point Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner MP, former Education Select Committee Chair Barry Sheerman and former schools minister and Education Select Committee member Stephen Timms…
Behind the Isle of Wight ‘ghetto’ headlines is an extremely complex educational picture
Ofsted chair David Hoare’s controversial comments may have attracted coverage, but both he and the media fail to understand what is going on in the island’s school system. Some ill-judged…
At age 13, girls more likely than boys to believe that going to university is important
…surveyed (61%) thought it was very important to get a degree compared with only 13% who said it was of little or very little importance. Around one in 10 girls…
Sir Peter Lampl comments on Knowsley A-levels issue
Commenting on reports that Knowsley schools may offer no A-level courses in future, Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust said today: “It is important that young people have…
Parents face ‘complex’ school criteria
…schools tend to be faith-based, with religious families coming from higher social groups, it added. Researchers compared the social make-up of schools with their local areas. They identified the schools…