Ten top tips on how to become an evidence-informed school leader or governor from Stephen Tall, Director of Development and Communications at the Education Endowment Foundation. Last week, the Education…
Evidence of intent
…maintained their commitment to lifting the ban preventing new grammar schools, justifying the policy by referring to its new calculation of ‘ordinary working families’ – roughly the middle third of…
Sutton Scholars is now underway
…programme last month. As a new model, the launch sees the first Scholars cohort to focus on an individual subject. Our commissioned report from Boston Consulting Group identified major skills…
The data deficit effect
…story into a second day of front page news and saw the BBC’s Scotland political editor filing a lengthy report for the evening news bulletins. By the time last Thursday’s…
Able to succeed
…like our summer schools are helping more bright students from comprehensives get into those universities, where forty per cent of students are from independent schools which educate only seven per…
Lost in the grammars debate
…time, our more recent reports from 2013 showed that less than 3% of grammar school pupils come from an FSM background, 13% come from outside the state school system, largely…