Writing for The Financial Times, Michael Skapinker referenced the Sutton Trust’s apprenticeships report in a comment piece on university education. “All officers ‘should have degrees’,” was the BBC headline. An…
Barry Sheerman to chair new Sutton Trust Education Advisory Group
Barry Sheerman, MP for Huddersfield and former chairman of the House of Commons Education Committee, will chair a new Education Advisory Group, set up by the Sutton Trust to help…
Lee Elliot Major: ‘I hope my story shows what can be achieved’
…from deprived communities or the first in their families to go to university. Yet they were all visibly shocked when I told them my own story and why the work…
Summer Stateside
…application video (which, can I just point out, you will cringe over), it really is unbelievable to think that the trip has come and passed. Despite it being my first…
So long, farewell….
…there are good and bad. And I have certainly met my fair share of egos, whose motivation is highly questionable. But my overriding experience has been of being humbled by…
Lee Elliot Major: Evaluating the impact of widening participation initiatives
…the students they are trying to help. The Sutton Trust’s Lee Elliot Major advocates for a more evidence-based approach. It is nothing short of a scandal that the vast majority…