…person in that role to have attended a state comprehensive. How does the new cabinet compare to previous cabinets? Although the privately educated proportion of Johnson’s cabinet is considerably higher…
Britain’s most powerful people 5 times more likely to go to private school
…2014, when 22 per cent of then Labour leader Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet were privately educated. Of current MPs in the House of Commons in 2017, 29% come from a…
Two-thirds of academy chains perform below average for disadvantaged pupils
…little to suggest that the Regional Schools Commissioners are having any success in bringing about improvement. There is little to suggest that the Regional Schools Commissioners are having any success…
Money matters
…school. Indeed, the use of private tuition is common amongst better-off parents, who are five times more likely to report that their child has ever received private tuition (31% compared…
Free schools: Seven years on
…such a novel approach. Innovators are more common in the primary sector, with 35 per cent of 152 primary free schools which are still open found to be innovative, compared…
Our first Sutton Trust Alumni event
…gave alumni the chance to come together and meet each other, hear directly about the board’s plans for the development of the community, and be inspired by a speech from…