…could be trialled in the Opportunity Areas announced recently by Justine Greening. It is not all bad news. There is evidence that the gap has been narrowing in primary schools…
Over four in ten state school teachers rarely or never advise bright pupils to apply to Oxbridge
…their bright pupils to apply and a quarter (28%) said they usually did, according to new polling published by the Sutton Trust. The news comes ahead of Saturday’s Oxbridge applications…
‘More Rio medal winners were state-school educated’
BBC News online reported on our analysis of the background of Team GB Olympic medallists The proportion of Team GB medal winners who were state-school educated has grown since London…
UK universities take increasing battle for students into virtual world
Jamie Doward and Rebecca Ratcliffe cite Sutton Trust research on student debt in an Observer news feature In the past, a school pupil thinking of going to university would make…
Sally Weale: Grammar Schools and the great social mobility debate
…outside the state sector, often from fee-paying preparatory schools. ….. On Monday, as the world of education absorbed the news that May’s new Tory government is about to open the…
Dominic Raab: Honours, schools, boardrooms — get them right and see the underdog excel
…not held to the same standards. The disclosure by this newspaper of 48 nominations for honours for Tory donors, aides and “remain” campaigners has a resonance well beyond the Westminster…