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      <title><![CDATA[Most teachers support link between performance and pay]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A major survey of teachers has found widespread support for a link between teachers’ pay and their performance, with three-quarters of teachers believing that annual salary increases should be linked to performance.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Less than half of state teachers would advise their most able pupils to apply to Oxbridge]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Less than half of secondary state school teachers say they would advise their brightest pupils to apply to Oxford and Cambridge universities, a national survey of teachers commissioned by the Sutton Trust has found.
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      <title><![CDATA[80 top independent day schools back Open Access]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[80 top independent day schools have called on the Government to support the Sutton Trust's Open Access scheme, which would enable talented pupils from all backgrounds to enter the country’s highest performing independent day schools.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to make our private schools open to all - The Spectator]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[An article written by the Sutton Trust's chairman Sir Peter Lampl in The Spectator regarding Open Access.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pay children to attend top private schools, Government told]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[An article from the Daily Telegraph reporting on the Sutton Trust's Open Access programme]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Let's put British youngster in the Ivy League]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Students from all backgrounds deserve the all-round university eudcation America offers says Sir Peter Lampl in The Times.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sutton Trust US Summer School launched at Yale]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Sutton Trust is launching a US version of its highly successful summer school programme to give bright non-privileged UK students experience of undergraduate study in America. The programme is centred on a week at Yale University, with support before and after.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[US Summer School featured on the Today Programme]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Radio 4's Today programme looks at the Sutton Trust's latest initiative, a US Summer School.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Independent Commission to review impact of fees]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[An Independent Commission has been established to monitor the impact of increased university fees in England over the next three years, it was announced today.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Summer schools 'help poorer students' applications' - BBC]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[BBC article on the Sutton Trust's latest report examining the impact of the Summer School programme.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Summer schools lead to better chance of top university place, says study - The Guardian]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[An article from the Guardian reporting on the impact of the Sutton Trust Summer School programme]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Three quarters of Sutton Trust Summer School students win places at top universities]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ability to think must trump ability to pay - The Times]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[An article written by the Sutton Trust's chairman Sir Peter Lampl in the Times, focusing on improving social mobility through Open Access.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Latest research report: What prospects for mobility in the UK? A cross-national study of educational inequalities and their implications for future education and earnings mobility.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The Sutton Trust has published today its latest report on social mobility.]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Improving poor teachers would transform England's education performance to be among the best in the world  ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[English schools could improve their low position in international league tables in Reading and Mathematics and become one of the top five education performers in the world within 10 years if the performance of the country’s least effective teachers was brought up to the national average according to new research published today by the Sutton Trust.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Private tuition booms despite recession]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Nearly a quarter (23%) of schoolchildren aged 11-16 in England and Wales have received some private or home tuition according to the latest survey of 2739 students commissioned by the Sutton Trust and carried out by Ipsos MORI earlier this year.  The proportion of students receiving tuition has increased from 18% in 2005 to 23% in 2011 (see table at end of the release). ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Poor children, not teachers, should have priority in school admissions]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Children from poor backgrounds should have priority in school admissions and should be the main children to benefit when successful schools expand, says the Sutton Trust in its response to the Government’s proposals on changes to the admissions code. It does not think schools should give preference to children of their own teachers.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Teachers' children must not be able to jump queue, warns trust - TES]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[An article from the TES about the Sutton Trust's views on the government's proposed overhaul of the school admissions system. ]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Four schools and one college win more places at Oxbridge than 2000 schools combined]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Four schools and one college sent more students to Oxbridge over three years than 2,000 schools and colleges across the UK, reveals the latest report on university admissions by individual schools by the Sutton Trust.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Only one third of pupils understand tuition fees]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Just under a third of secondary school children correctly understand the fees system for universities in England reveals the latest survey commissioned by the Sutton Trust.]]></description>
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