Sky News reported on our Degrees of Debt research on its morning news bulletins Graduates are leaving universities in England with the highest debt levels in the English-speaking world. A…
Tim Harford: How politicians poisoned statistics
…before the British general election, a proud newspaper resigned itself to the view that little good could come from the use of statistics by politicians. An editorial in the Guardian…
Sheen: Arts Becoming Harder For Working Class
Lucy Cotter highlighted Sutton Trust research in a Sky News report on access in the arts Michael Sheen has told Sky News the culture of privilege in the arts is…
All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility: Inquiry into Access into Leading Professions
…of Commons, to leading news journalists, to those most prominent in the arts. Our research has consistently shown that the UK’s professional elite is disproportionately educated at private schools and…
Rod Liddle: Put a limit on jobs for all the toffs and give us plebs a chance
…— even though the plebs know the dice have been loaded. Always have been. But the latest news is that things are getting even worse. We are no more equal…
Shining a light on university access
…the United States on university access work. The good news is that there is strong evidence that outreach activities, in general, do succeed in attracting and admitting students from non-privileged…