Sir Peter Lampl on the background to our Oxbridge Admissions report. Going to Oxford was a life-changing experience for me. I didn’t come from a wealthy family – my father…
Children from wealthy families more likely to grow up as extroverts
…a new study. The research suggests that our personality and aspirations are strongly linked to our social background. ……. Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust, which published the…
Out of character
…is one. For a number of reasons extraverted adults were more likely to come from comfortable backgrounds – which we defined as having parents with professional jobs – than those…
“Prospects for improved social mobility remain bleak”
…Professor Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics and Research Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, one of the authors of the seminal 2005 study, at a seminar on social mobility…
Access regulator must retain independence, warns Sutton Trust
…and making sure that it is not seen as a second order issue for those institutions that are research intensive. The Trust strongly supports proposals in the green paper to…
Leading legals
…percentage point (75%). And our new research published today with Prime shows, it has dropped still further – but only by another percentage point (74%). The judiciary remains almost as…