Following today’s official launch of The Legal Education Foundation (TLEF, formerly The College of Law www.thelef.org), the Sutton Trust confirmed the TLEF’s grant to Pathways to Law will enable it to extend its legal access programme to 12 universities, including four new ones, over the next four years.
Britain’s brightest boys from the least advantaged homes are more likely to score poorly on international reading tests than those in any other advanced nation, according to new Sutton Trust research published today.
The proportion of young people saying that they have received private tuition has remained high over the last year, with Londoners most likely to have had extra teaching, according to a new Sutton Trust survey.
Mature student applications in England have fallen by more than 18,000 (a 14% decline) since the introduction of the new £9,000 fees regime, a new analysis of UCAS data by the Independent Commission on Fees shows today.
Beneficiaries of the assisted places scheme, which provided a means-tested education at independent schools for young people from less advantaged homes until 1997, continue to reap the benefits from their private education, according to a new study for the Sutton Trust.
England needs an apprenticeship revolution, with 150-300,000 extra three-year apprenticeship starts each year for young people, according to a major new analysis by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for the Sutton Trust published today.
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation said that today’s report by the social mobility commissioner Alan Milburn provided a wake-up call to politicians and policymakers on the dangers of social mobility reversing again.
More than four times as many grammar school pupils come from outside the state sector – with the vast majority likely to be from fee-paying preparatory schools – than the number entitled to free school meals, new Sutton Trust research shows today.
Fifty bright British state school pupils from low and middle income homes will get a unique opportunity to spend a week at Harvard in summer 2014 as the Sutton Trust expands its successful US Programme in partnership with the US-UK Fulbright Commission.
At least a quarter of the access gap to the top universities in England, the United States and Australia cannot be explained by academic achievement, according to new research to be presented at a Sutton Trust summit this morning.