25th January Peers debated the plans to replace student maintenance grants with loans when Labour proposed a “motion of regret” on the proposal. Labour Peer Lord Stevenson introduced the motion…
Guest blog: Re-granting for larger trials
…means supporting programmes with good evidence of positive impact to expand their reach: to find out if they can be delivered in more schools in a way which both maintains…
Catherine Bennett: Written your child’s personal statement yet? Get a move on…
…of commitment, carefully stripped of cliches, before proof of intellectual curiosity. It was not unexpected, perhaps, that support with personal statements, routine in independent schools, should help students from comprehensives…
Losing focus
…board on the day that the Government publishes the latest league tables. It shows how the system is in danger of losing long-term comparability, bamboozling parents with a level of…
Universities spend £124m a year on disadvantaged pupils, but not enough evidence available to tell them ‘what works best’
…mentoring are three methods with the most evidence of success. The research brief also identifies certain features that are common to successful programmes: those that work closely with parents and…
Does ‘academies only’ sponsorship policy waste educational expertise?
…take an advisory role. …… Hampshire’s school improvement service is selling more work to local academies than it did when they were maintained schools, says John Clarke, Hampshire’s deputy director…