…23% of senior Civil Service employees attended a comprehensive school, and 7% attended universities outside of the top 30. These figures indicate a huge range of untapped skills and experience….
Higher ambitions
…communities enter higher education. That’s the context in which the Prime Minister has set his target to double participation of those disadvantaged students. However, those students will come out with…
Andrea Jenkyns MP, Sutton Trust access into leading professions champion, BIS question
…Sutton Trust in oral Business Innovation and Skills questions this week. Andrea asked: I am a champion of the Sutton Trust and the inquiry by the all-party parliamentary group on…
English graduates saddled with debt, research shows
…choosing this route they will earn while they learn, incur less debt, and develop skills which are greatly valued in the workplace. “We need more good apprenticeships to offer genuine…
England degree debt ‘highest in English-speaking world’
…on graduation of over £50,000 with interest rates on the debt compounding at up to 3% over inflation. “These debt levels are by far the highest in the English-speaking world…
UK graduates leave university with more debt than US peers
…including the US, according to research. A comparative study carried out by the Sutton Trust, a group that campaigns for greater social mobility, showed the poorest British students run up…