…pupils from top performing independent schools on average make twice as many applications to leading research universities than their peers from state comprehensive schools with similar average A- level results….
Less than half of state teachers would advise their most able pupils to apply to Oxbridge
Less than half of secondary state school teachers say they would advise their brightest pupils to apply to Oxford and Cambridge universities, a national survey of teachers commissioned by the…
The budget’s early years reforms risk entrenching pre-school inequality
…We wouldn’t give better off families longer hours in school, so why are we doing exactly that in the early years? In 2019, a House of Commons Education Committee report…
What we’ve learned from the COSMO Study
…coming years. COSMO cohort timeline 2019-2023 Social mobility is ultimately about pathways: in particular the different pathways that lives take depending on their starting point. By the time they reached…
Hear from our Programmes Interns
…Oh and of course, the Fun Committee Socials which us interns organise! Aiyesha: I support on the delivery, communication and evaluation of the Trust’s programmes, in particular the UK Summer…
A quarter of a century of championing social mobility
…front-page news – and the state school intake of Oxbridge (a flawed but powerful symbol of opportunity) languished at less than fifty percent. Sir Peter Lampl founded the Trust to…