…down well. Within months Gove had lost his job. So Alan Milburn and the Social Mobility Commission should be commended for not pulling any punches in a wide-ranging and hard-hitting…
Are boys the losers with tuition fees?
Conor Ryan considers the lessons from this week’s report by the Independent Commission on Fees. Students are well into the first year of higher tuition fees. While 54,000 fewer young…
Race to the Top
…Watford Grammar School for Boys 7% Durham Johnston Comprehensive School 7% Mossbourne Community Academy 7% The Highfield School 6% Sir John Lawes School 6% Lady Margaret School 6% Matthew Arnold…
Lotteries used to break middle-class hold on school places
…– ending the current policy in which secondaries use a myriad of different tests. Conor Ryan, the trust’s director of research, said: “Access to the most popular comprehensives should not…
Top teachers needed to help poor white pupils
…in struggling schools to tackle underachievement by poor, white, working-class children, a committee of MPs has recommended. A report by the Commons education committee said that white British children from…
Independent school education found to boost grades and earnings
…possible to overcome the problems of the Assisted Places Scheme, whilst retaining its benefits, by making private schools less socially exclusive. He commented, ”This research shows clearly that there is…