…case? It can be explained in part by the focus on sport at many independent schools: their pupils are more likely to benefit from ample time set aside for sport,…
Thousands of disadvantaged pupils miss out on taking languages, history and geography at GCSE each year
…pupils – those eligible for pupil premium funding – who benefitted most at these ‘curriculum change schools’, essentially because students who were had average or in some cases, below average,…
Sir Peter Lampl and Sir Kevan Collins respond to the Sainsbury report on technical education
…before beginning technical education, as is already the case for apprentices. “But hundreds of thousands of young people each year are leaving formal education without these skills, seriously affecting their…
Social Mobility APPG Access into Leading Professions Inquiry Session Two – Access into Medicine – a summary
…the importance of high quality careers advice in schools; encouraging school-recruiter (in this case the medical school) collaboration; the significance of work experience (particularly to mitigate networking effects); a need…
Girls set their sight on university at age 13
…cent of boys. Researchers said that this was the case because girls “tend to mature” faster “socially and academically” and they feel more comfortable within school because they are better…
Leading article: Scotland’s education problems will test Swinney
…enough to silence her critics. This week, she has been accused by political opponents of having no significant strategy to back up her stated intentions. If she has a case…