…role in educational outcomes, attainment among pupils from Bangladeshi, black African and Chinese backgrounds who are on free school meals (FSM) has improved dramatically in the past decade. *** “Several…
GCSE pupils from poor Chinese families do three times better than whites
The Daily Mail’s Eleanor Harding cites findings from our Class Differences: Ethnicity and disadvantage report. Pupils of Chinese descent from disadvantaged homes are almost three times as likely as white…
Sir Peter Lampl responds to Justine Greening’s speech
Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Sutton Trust, welcomed Justine Greening’s commitment to tackling inequalities in grammar schools and urged radical change to their recruitment practices in…
Grammar schools to offer lower pass marks to poorer pupils
Rachel Roberts of the Independent quotes our chairman Peter Lampl on fairer admissions to grammar schools. “We welcome the expectation that grammar schools do more to attract disadvantaged pupils, including…
Don’t bother with Oxbridge, state school pupils are told
The Times’ Nicola Woolcock cites findings from our teachers’ Oxbridge perception polling. More than two fifths of state secondary school teachers say they would rarely, or never, advise their bright…
State school teachers still not pushing best pupils to Oxbridge
…in shaping young people’s aspirations which is why we run teacher summer schools at Oxford and Cambridge,” said Sir Peter Lampl, the Sutton Trust’s founder and chairman. “Today’s polling tells…