For 15 years, the Sutton Trust has highlighted social selectivity in high-performing comprehensive schools. Too often, access to places is down to a family’s financial resources and cultural capital. This…
Drama in Crisis
https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/APP_-Access_into_the_Arts_and_Media_039-1024×683.jpg https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/APP_-Access_into_the_Arts_and_Media_007-1024×683.jpg https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/APP_-Access_into_the_Arts_and_Media_033-1024×683.jpg Hilary Cornwell reports on the final session of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on social mobility’s inquiry into access to leading professions. Swapping Hollywood for Westminster, Michael Sheen…
OFFA and Sutton Trust launch project to research the impact of outreach
…expenditure. OFFA is currently assessing access agreements for 2017-18. The strategic guidance for these access agreements (https://www.offa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/strategic-access-agreement-guidance.pdf) asked universities and colleges to take account of the latest evidence and consider…
Mobility Manifesto 2017
…heart of the general election https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/place-social-mobility-at-the-heart-of-the-general-election/ Javneet Ghuman: Mobility in the manifestos https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/mobility-in-the-manifestos-2/ Recommendations 1 blue-dark 1 Guarantee that all disadvantaged children have access to the best early years education…
Changing the subject
…4 curriculum is appropriate for those not entering the EBacc and do more to facilitate a Technical Baccalaureate option. 7130 20160719 2016 23625 2 Press release: Changing the Subject https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/thousands-of-disadvantaged-pupils-miss-out-on-taking-languages-history-and-geography-at-gcse-each-year-new-sutton-trust-research-brief-analyses-the-impact-of-curriculum-changes-on-subject-choices/…
Chain Effects 2016
…6946 20160706 2016 23723 1 One in five academy chains below average for results and improvement for poorest pupils, but best chains delivering outstanding results https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/one-in-five-academy-chains-below-average-for-results-and-improvement-for-poorest-pupils-but-best-chains-delivering-outstanding-results/ Academies: Improving outcomes? https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/academies-improving-outcomes/…