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Social mobility in the workplace
A comprehensive guide to widening access for employers.
Universities and Social Mobility
A look at the relationship between higher education and social mobility.
Low Income Pupils in High Performing Comprehensive schools
1st August 2008
An analysis looking at how the proportion and numbers of children on free school meals at top-ranked schools has changed in the last decade.
Read reportWasted Talent? Attrition rates for high-achieving pupils between school and university
1st June 2008
Report showing that there are 60,000 students each year who at some point are among the top-performers in their year group, but who do...
Read reportPrimed for Success
1st May 2008
Institute of Education Study looking at the characteristics and practices of state schools with good track records of entry into prestigious UK universities.
Read reportMORI Young People Omnibus Survey 2008
2nd April 2008
Ipsos Mori survey of young people's higher education intentions, showing highest level of aspirations for five years.
Read reportTen Year Review of Sutton Trust Summer Schools
1st March 2008
Sutton Trust Summer School students from non-traditional backgrounds do well in degrees.
Read reportKnowing Where to Study? Fees, Bursaries and Fair Access
2nd February 2008
Poorer students have little knowledge of bursaries on offer, and some are deterred from university by fear of debt, according to research from Staffordshire...
Read reportUniversity Admissions by Individual Schools
1st February 2008
This study documents the extent to which a few highly socially and academically selective schools dominate admissions to the country's leading research universities.
Read reportMORI Teachers’ Survey 2007
30th December 2007
Survey of 500 teachers reveals that only half would generally recommend their brightest students to apply to Oxbridge.
Read reportRecent Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain
1st December 2007
The vast majority of England's most socially selective state secondary schools are non-grammar schools, a major review carried out for the Sutton Trust reveals...
Read reportCOSMO Study
Major new cohort study examining the long-term impact of the pandemic on educational inequality and social mobility.
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