…translates into just one in three senior doctors, a quarter of the senior judiciary and less than half of top news journalists. Access to the elite jobs, it argued, has…
Concern over teachers’ university advice
Javier Espinoza reported for the Daily Telegraph on Making a Statement Teachers are ruining children’s’ chances of getting to Oxbridge by giving them poor feedback, new research shows. There is…
Students are losing out as teachers’ and university tutors’ ideas about what makes a good personal statement are a “world apart”
…to definite Law wastes space and provides no useful information about the applicant”. The comparison suggests that the advice and guidance that some young people receive at school when composing…
Being an apprentice ‘better than studying for a mediocre degree’
…who go to non-elite universities. The study will give weight to arguments that so-called ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees in non-traditional subjects at poorly performing universities are poor value for money. Business…
Where have 30 years of parental choice left school admissions?
…an increase in the number of academies. Alongside voluntary-aided, free schools and faith schools, academies can set their own admissions policies. But I found that widespread compliance co-exists with continued…
Sir Peter Lampl: High price to pay for medical schools
Sir Peter Lampl writes to The Times about Pathways to Medicine Sir, The Sutton Trust welcomes the Medical Schools Council’s recognition that more must be done to improve access to…