…potential. The pupil premium has a big role to play here alongside a national programme for highly able students.” Read the full PA report at the BT.com news site here…
Sir Peter Lampl: Budget Announcement Response
…sporting activities for less advantaged pupils. However, the news that all schools will become academies is a further huge step away from academies’ original purpose of tackling failure in schools…
Ofsted calls for ‘battlers’ to be new breed of headteacher
Richard Garner reported on the Sutton Trust/Carnegie summit for The Independent and The i newspapers Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of the education standards watchdog Ofsted, called for more “battlers, bruisers…
Hadley Freeman: So the privately educated are the new underclass? Spare me the sob story
…state school students. Meanwhile, the Sutton Trust’s study confirmed that the privately educated still dominate the leading professions. Newspapers reported this in shocked tones, but given that 51% of print…
Access to the top
…For instance, of all High Court and Appeals Court judges, nearly three quarters attended private schools, as did over half of the top 100 news journalists and a third of…
Inquiry to Investigate How Best to Improve Access to Leading Professions
…2015 intake were independently educated and, of all High Court and Appeals Court judges, nearly three quarters attended private schools, as did over half of the top 100 news journalists…