…building links with communities and schools to appeal to students from poorer backgrounds. It seems to be working. Analysis by the recent final report of the Independent Commission on Fees…
10 things we didn’t know last week
In their weekly roundup of the week, the BBC included the Sutton Trust Mobility Index. South Derbyshire has the lowest social mobility of any parliamentary constituency in England. Read the…
Please accept my mini genius
Writing for the Sunday Times, Eleanor Mills mentions the Sutton Trust’s Social Mobility Index in an article on school admissions. Last Thursday was “national offer day”, when half a million…
Conor Ryan: University funding challenge
Conor Ryan wrote for Public Finance in Jan/Feb 2015 on university funding As the general election looms, Nick Clegg’s decision to back a trebling of tuition fees could come back…
Richest parents four times more likely than poorest to pay for extra classes for their children
…the top fifth of incomes – those earning more than £52,000 a year – have paid fees for extra-curricular activities for their children in the past three months, compared with…
Nature and nurture
…argued that the whole idea of splitting traits such as IQ into separate components of heredity and environment is scientifically indefensible: we are the product of the complex dance in…