…and Communications, is a member of the commission. The key barriers the commission identified include: Early years attainment gap School attainment gap Low aspirations Lack of parental experience of…
Landmark study shows the impact of the pandemic on young people
…deprived fifth of state comprehensive schools doing so, compared to 4% for those from the most deprived. The researchers say that support offered for catch-up across all school years in…
A comprehensive victory?
…we improve representation in the Commons? With the privately educated so over-represented in politics, what can be done to level the playing field? Improving political education in comprehensive schools is…
Sutton Trust response to the Education Select Committee report on grammar schools
Commenting on today’s report on grammar schools from the Education Select Committee, Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Chairman of the Sutton Trust and Chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation, said:…
Sir Peter Lampl and Sir Kevan Collins respond to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s annual report
Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: “Alan Milburn and his commission are absolutely right to urge ambitious measures to boost social…
COMPREHENSIVE PUPILS OUTPERFORM INDEPENDENT AND GRAMMAR PUPILS IN UNIVERSITY DEGREES
Students from comprehensive schools are likely to achieve higher class degrees at university than independent and grammar school students with similar A-levels and GCSE results, a major study commissioned by…