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Sutton Trust comment on OFFA access agreement guidance
Sir Peter Lampl comments on today’s OFFA guidance for 2014-15 university access agreements.
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Poor mentoring can be worse than no mentoring, new teachers’ toolkit reveals
Poor mentoring can be worse than no mentoring for vulnerable young people. That’s one of the insights for teachers provided by the revamped Sutton Trust-Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit launched today.
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Global Education Rankings Can Be Misleading
Big variations in England’s education rankings in global league tables can be misleading and should be treated with caution, the Sutton Trust said today as it published a new report explaining apparent inconsistencies in international rankings.
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Postgraduates earn £200,000 premium as basic degree no longer enough
A surge in postgraduate qualifications – including Master’s degrees – in recent years is making it harder for young people who simply have primary degrees to stand out in today’s professional labour market, a new Sutton Trust report, The Postgraduate Premium, shows today.
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Improvements in exam results are the best way to evaluate teachers
The research, by Richard Murphy of the London School of Economics, looks at the three most common ways of assessing teachers, and finds that improvements in pupils test scores are the best single measure of long-run teacher performance. They are nearly twice as effective as student surveys and nearly three times more effective than classroom observations, even by independent, well-trained assessors.
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What Works: Sir Peter Lampl Welcomes Designation of Sutton Trust And EEF as ‘What Works’ Centre
The Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation have been designated a What Works centre today, in recognition of their pioneering approach to independent evidence-based policy making.
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Sixth formers offered chance to design green car at the University of Southampton
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.
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400 students a year to benefit from £2.4m Pathways to Law programme
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.
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Working class gender gap widens in first year of £9000 tuition fees
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.
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Sutton Trust announces new board
The Sutton Trust today announced the membership of its new board, which will provide advice and support to the foundation which has been working to improve social mobility through education since 1997.