…our new Universities Access Programme, which will support bright students from non-selective Kent academies over four years. The students, staff, speakers and learning mentors were excellent. It’s a project with…
Parent power for all
…Academies in South London has done. But opening up such schools is not enough on its own. That’s why, when I worked for Tony Blair, I helped introduce a new…
More schools ‘should allocate places using lotteries’
…to the school in the inner area, but access opened to a wider group of parents in the outer catchment. This is an approach taken by some schools and academies…
London secondary schools feel impact of baby boom with applications up 5%
…that, as the number of academies grows and more schools have responsibility for their own admissions policies, more schools are using banding and random allocation to ensure a more mixed…
Call this a Comprehensive?
…Comprehensives was published by the Sutton Trust, which works to improve social mobility through education. It stated that some of England’s highest-performing comprehensive schools and academies are “significantly more socially…
New report reveals stark education gaps beyond the classroom
…under existing Academies policy, or under Conservative proposals for Free Schools. The Trust has also supported initiatives such as the Children’s University (www.childrensuniversity.co.uk) and Into University (www.intouniversity.org) which provide high…