…2020 25863 Most parents don’t feel confident about teaching their child at home https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/parent-polling-release/ Key Findings 1 pink 1 Only 42% of parents feel confident home-schooling their children: 47% of…
New HESA statistics show decline in part-time study: The Sutton Trust responds
…from early years through to access to the professions. ‘Higher education student enrolments and qualifications obtained at higher education providers in the United Kingdom 2016/17’ is published today at https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/11-01-2018/sfr247-higher-education-student-statistics….
Growing fee fears among young people
…is badly in need of reform. It is outrageous that someone from a council estate should pay more than someone from a top boarding school. This reform should include means-testing…
Response to SMC ‘Time for change’ report
…to improve social mobility. A full copy of the report will be available to download at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/social-mobility-commission MEDIA COVERAGE Decades of policies have failed to shift social mobility (I News)…
New OFFA guidance on evaluating outreach
…TO EDITORS ‘Improving the evaluation of outreach: interview report’ and ‘The evaluation of the impact of outreach: proposed standards of evaluation practice and associated guidance’ can be accessed here: https://www.offa.org.uk/egp/improving-evaluation-outreach/…
Three quarters of Sutton Trust summer school students win places at top universities
…run at seven leading universities: Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Imperial, Nottingham, St Andrews and UCL. More details at https://www.suttontrust.com/programmes/uk-summer-school-2/ Oxford University was part of the programme up until 2010 and now…