The I’s Padraic Flanagan cites findings from our Gaps in Grammar report. Grammar schools are no better for the brightest pupils than good comprehensives, according to new research which casts…
Four in ten teachers have been private tutors
…teaching role at some point during their careers, according to new research from the Sutton Trust. The polling of a nationally representative sample of 1,607 teachers, conducted by the National…
Labour must do more to cater for gifted children, says Tristram Hunt
…give to go-ahead to a new annex to a grammar school in Sevenoaks in Kent, in effect a new grammar school. Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust, welcomed…
Top teachers needed to help poor white pupils
…in struggling schools to tackle underachievement by poor, white, working-class children, a committee of MPs has recommended. A report by the Commons education committee said that white British children from…
Independent school education found to boost grades and earnings
…which has traced nearly 300 students from their schools into the workplace over 23 years. The research from the Institute of Education, University of London, sponsored by the Sutton Trust,…
The Educational backgrounds of 500 leading figures
…20 years ago. Journalists and medics were most likely to come from grammar schools, with about a third of the figures in the top 100s coming from selective state schools….