…grammar school education, Justine Greening is the first education secretary to go to a mainstream comprehensive secondary school, and the party’s new chairman, Patrick McLoughlin, is a former miner. Only…
UK state school pupils for US Ivy League
…Trust education charity wants these international opportunities to be available to poorer students and those from families where no one has previously gone to university. Of those who will be…
Social Mobility APPG Access into Leading Professions Inquiry Session One – Summary
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Bright state school pupils from Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire to get extra support to access top university courses
300 bright state school students from non-privileged backgrounds in Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire will benefit from a new Sutton Trust programme to help them access the most selective science, technology,…
Disadvantaged Clever Teens Half As Likely As Their Richer Classmates To Study A-Levels
…than 3,000 young people who have been tracked from the age of three for the Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE) project. ……. Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the…
Bright pupils do 50% worse if they’re poor
…Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust which commissioned the report, said: ‘The fact that bright disadvantaged students fall so far behind when they reach their A-levels shows that government and…