…MORI determines the affluence of young people’s backgrounds through a series of four questions in the questionnaire (frequency of family holidays, having one’s own bedroom in the family home, number…
Place social mobility at the heart of the general election
…contextual admissions and priority places for poorer pupils who meet the entrance criteria – before their number is increased. To tackle ‘selection by house price’ at top urban comprehensives, the…
Sir Peter Lampl Responds to the Prime Minister’s Education Speech
…comprehensives, backed by fairer admissions policies in urban comprehensive schools promoting ballots or banding to overcome selection by house price, backed by better advice to low income families on their…
More schools using pupil premium to plug budget gaps
…available to local authority-maintained schools in England, including special schools and pupil referral units, along with academies and free schools. In 2015-16, for each pupil registered eligible for free school…
Sutton Trust mentioned in debate calling for Independent Schools to open up facilities
7th January There was an interesting debate in Commons on compelling independent schools to open up their facilities to public use, following the introduction of amendment to the Charities Bill…
Sir Peter Lampl: What we can learn from the German way
Sir Peter Lampl looked to the continent in a comment piece for The Times’ ‘Elite Apprenticeships’ supplement. Working for Siemens in Germany in the late Seventies I was struck by…