…sporting activities for less advantaged pupils. However, the news that all schools will become academies is a further huge step away from academies’ original purpose of tackling failure in schools…
Ofsted calls for ‘battlers’ to be new breed of headteacher
Richard Garner reported on the Sutton Trust/Carnegie summit for The Independent and The i newspapers Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of the education standards watchdog Ofsted, called for more “battlers, bruisers…
Hadley Freeman: So the privately educated are the new underclass? Spare me the sob story
…how those who benefit most from this aforementioned privilege can live in complete denial of it, insisting their success is down entirely to their glittering talent. Two reports came out…
Access to the top
…women appointed to boards at FTSE 100 companies, for example. The Coalition Government set up a Social Mobility Business Compact to encourage employers to be more open to people from…
Inquiry to Investigate How Best to Improve Access to Leading Professions
…medicine, journalism and politics, it was announced today. The announcement comes after the Sutton Trust published Leading People 2016, a report showing that the top of the UK’s leading professions…
How private schools ‘give pupils skills to succeed’
Eleanor Harding quoted our Leading People research in a Daily Mail news story. High-flying professions are dominated by people who went to public schools because they provide the ‘soft skills’…