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More support urged for gifted pupils
02 December 2014
Judith Burns reported for BBC News on the Sutton Trust’s call for a national programme for highly able pupils
The most able pupils in English state schools need more help to reach their potential, says an education charity.
Too many bright 11-year-olds fail to maintain their early advantage or progress to higher education, says the Sutton Trust.
The trust wants a national support programme for able pupils to replace the “gifted and talented” programme, which ended in 2011.
The government said higher standards in all schools would benefit every child.
The charity says since the gifted and talented programme there has been “very little activity to support highly able pupils from low and middle income backgrounds in the early stages of secondary education”
Read her full report here
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