…while at comprehensives the increase was 2.2 percentage points (up to 22.3%), and at academies only 2.5 percentage points (up to 26.5%). UNIVERSITY ACCESS OVERALL: 243,650 18-year olds have been…
A quarter of a century of championing social mobility
…student body is more socio-economically diverse than ever before. On the schools front, Academies have more freedoms to give priority to low-income students and to use, for example, admissions ballots…
Another omnishambles? Inequality and A-level results in 2021
…other centre types, with 39.3% achieving A*/A in comprehensives, a 6.2 percentage point increase from 2020; 41.9% at academies, a 5.7 percentage point increase; and 35.3% in Sixth Forms, up…
Elitist Britain: Segregation in schooling & privileged pathways to power
…the City Technology Colleges, Academies, and Faith Schools.[5] The competitive education market continued to be a feature of the Coalition and Conservative Governments; policies of mass academisation and free schools…
1,000 disadvantaged pupils miss out on top grades
…at GCSE in schools in London and in converter academies, as well as schools with more high-attaining students. They do worse at schools with more free school meal eligible pupils,…
2 in 3 pupils say they may opt for apprenticeship
…2,381 11 to 16-year-olds in academies and maintained schools in England and Wales were surveyed by Ipsos Mori. The Sutton Trust said separate polling of 1,246 teachers by the National…