Lee Elliot Major says that an increasingly exclusive rich is bad news for social mobility. The tell-tale signs of our self-perpetuating elite can be seen in recent apparently unconnected news…
England degree debt ‘highest in English-speaking world’
BBC News reported on our Degrees of Debt research University graduates in England face higher debts on graduation than their peers in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the…
Primary selection
…new faith free schools. The attention given to secondary school choices should not blind us from the impact of social selection in primaries. Today’s new report should help start a…
Cameron brings in Thatcherite Javid to spearhead business push
The Financial Times quoted new Sutton Trust research on their first page today in an article regarding the new MPs. David Cameron has named Thatcherite former banker Sajid Javid as…
The Case for Fairer Fees
Sir Peter Lampl makes the case for means-tested fees as new research suggests that fear of debt is a significant concern. Today, the Sutton Trust has published new evidence that…
Turning the Tables
…culture and on the best ways to engage parents. But how does it reach so different a conclusion from PISA on the comparative health of the UK education system? It…