News Releases
NFER poll results on teachers spending pupil premium
16 May 2013
Results from new polling commissioned by the Sutton Trust from the National Foundation for Education Research, as part of their Teacher Omnibus survey, show that teachers are increasingly turning to research evidence – and to the Sutton Trust/EEF Toolkit - when making decisions about spending the pupil premium, the £2 billion government budget for poorer pupils.
Sutton Trust Blog - No legislation no bad thing
9 May 2013
Conor Ryan suggests that the absence of education legislation in the Queen’s Speech may be a blessing for education reform
Sutton Trust Blog - World’s Apart
25 April 2013
Lee Elliot Major on the challenge of getting research to impact on education practise
Sutton Trust announces new board
17 April 2013
The Sutton Trust today announced the membership of its new advisory and development board, which will provide advice and support to the foundation which has been working to improve social mobility through education since 1997.
Sutton Trust Blog - Are boys the losers with tuition fees?
10 April 2013
Conor Ryan considers the lessons from this week’s report by the Independent Commission on Fees.
Sutton Trust US Programme welcomes Teresa Heinz Kerry
10 April 2013
The Sutton Trust US Programme was pleased to welcome Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of US Secretary of State John Kerry and leading US Philanthropist to Millbank Tower, London in April.
Working class gender gap widens in first year of £9000 tuition fees
10 April 2013
The gap between working class boys and girls going to university widened in the first year of the new tuition fees regime, a new analysis of UCAS data by the Independent Commission on Fees shows today.
400 students a year to benefit from £2.4m Pathways to Law programme
21 March 2013
A pioneering programme to enable 400 young people a year – 1200 in total – from non-professional homes to become the next generation of lawyers is being extended thanks to a £1.2m grant to the Sutton Trust by the Legal Education Foundation.
Sutton Trust Blog - Access and the avalanche
14 March 2013
Conor Ryan considers a new report suggesting that the days of many traditional universities are numbered in the face of online and mass delivery challenges.
Sixth formers offered chance to design green car at the University of Southampton
12 March 2013
Forty-five sixth formers will be offered an exciting opportunity to build a glider, a Green car and high-speed hovercraft at the University of Southampton.
