…the independent sector, secondary academies, and schools with low numbers of disadvantaged pupils. The lack of specialist physics teachers in particular is affecting access to ‘triple science’ for disadvantaged pupils,…
Testing Teachers
Report Overview The increasing flexibility enjoyed by academies and other schools over teachers’ pay and changes in the appraisal regulations in 2012 give schools in England a real opportunity to…
Selective Comprehensives
…of the same types of school nationally. Voluntary-aided schools, making up 24% of the top 500, and converter academies, making up 37%, are the most over-represented. • Categorising schools in…
MORI Teachers’ Omnibus 2004 (Wave 3)
A MORI survey of 360 secondary school teachers reveals they are split on whether Academies are an appropriate way of raising educational standards in deprived areas, and that a majority…
Sutton Trust response to GCSE Results Day 2024
…higher, up from 47.5% last year. In contrast, at academies it rose slightly from 21% to 21.2%, and at comprehensives 19.3% to 19.4%. This means the gap between independent and…
Sutton Trust response to Results Day 2023
…up by almost 3 percentage points to 47.4%, while at academies and comprehensives they are up by less than 1.5 percentage points (at 25.4% and 22% respectively). At FE colleges…