…differences in attitudes to education in their communities. We’ve seen big improvements in results in many BME communities in the last decade, and pupils from many Asian communities perform best…
One in four pupils at state school also has a private tutor
The Times’ Nicola Woolcock cites findings from our Shadow Schooling report. A quarter of children are being privately taught outside school as middle-class parents engage in a “tutoring arms race”,…
Number of youngsters in private tuition up by a third
…private tuition are more likely to come from advantaged backgrounds. Of all children aged 11-16, 17 per cent of pupils who are eligible for free school meals have received private…
SUTTON TRUST LAUNCH TWO NEW PROGRAMMES TO WIDEN ACCESS TO THE TECH SECTOR
…the STEM degree courses that large tech companies tend to recruit from and cannot take the financial risk that is part of working for a start-up company. There are around…
HALF OF YOUNG PEOPLE HOPING TO GO TO HIGHER EDUCATION WORRY ABOUT COST
…to think they will go on to university than their more advantaged peers. Every year since 2003, the Sutton Trust has asked a representative sample of around 2,500 young people…
Leading Article: Losing Focus
…entrants are entitled to free school meals, a marker of social disadvantage, compared with 18 per cent of English children overall. The difference is stark, too, among the brightest 11-year-olds:…