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Nearly a quarter of teachers think that the pupil premium – funds which schools receive to help improve the results of their disadvantaged pupils – is not being targeted at low income students in their schools, according to a new Sutton Trust poll released today.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation and of the Sutton Trust, welcomed today’s Education Select Committee report on white working class boys and girls.

Grammar schools are taking positive steps to become more accessible to pupils from all backgrounds and should be encouraged to develop this work further said James Turner, Director of Programmes at the Sutton Trust.

Endowment funds at American universities have recovered from the economic downturn better than their British counterparts, so that they are now worth a quarter more than they were a decade ago.

James Turner responds to Department for Education figures that show private school students were five times as likely to go to Oxbridge as their state school peers in 2011.

Conor Ryan comments on new research published today by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission suggesting that more than 2,000 children from disadvantaged backgrounds who get excellent results in tests at age 11 are missing out on places at top universities every year because they fall off course during secondary school.

Children who attend private school will earn £193,700 more on average in their early careers than their state educated peers, according to a new independent report by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank which analyses the Sutton Trust’s Open Access programme.

Conor Ryan comments on the new OFFA/HEFCE report on university access agreements.

The best academy chains outperform other state-funded schools, new Sutton Trust research shows today, while the weakest chains trail their mainstream counterparts in raising standards for their poorest pupils.