…Budget Statement overall, Carl Cullinane, Director of Research and Policy at the Sutton Trust, said: “We welcome today’s real terms increase in the education budget, including confirmation of increased funding…
England’s Lionesses – a class act?
…country’s top professions. Football is a social mobility success story, with most footballers – just like the population overall – attending state comprehensive schools. That report, Elitist Britain 2019, looked…
Eight schools send as many pupils to Oxbridge as three-quarters of all schools
…schools did so. Of those who applied to Oxbridge from schools in the top fifth, 35% were successful from independent schools, but only 28% of those applying from comprehensives were…
Beyond expectations
…likely to see themselves attending university. 67% of those on free school meals see themselves as likely, compared to 79% of non-disadvantaged pupils, or 81% of those in the most…
Unequal mobilities
…groups are three times as likely to commute to university from home as those from the highest group (44.9% compared with 13.1%). State school students are 2.6 times more likely…
Middle-class teenagers hoovering up best apprenticeships
…in 10 young women eligible for free school meals, took up an apprenticeship compared with one in seven of the cohort overall, it said. Two fifths of the three million…