…grammar schools benefit disadvantaged and highly able students and improve the whole education system overall. The key points in our submission are below (the full response may be found by…
The Sutton Trust and Education Endowment Foundation respond to the National Funding Formula Consultation – Phase 2
…to school budgets, and urges the government to address the issue of ‘double disadvantage’ experienced by those pupils who come from both a disadvantaged background and live in poorer neighbourhoods….
White students are keeping their grip on elite universities despite school struggles
…that white students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds had worse test results than students with a similar background from any other main ethnic group. And while disadvantaged students from other…
Sir Peter Lampl and Sir Kevan Collins respond to the Education Secretary’s speech
Commenting on the Education Secretary’s speech to the Conservative Party conference and the announcement of new ‘Opportunity Areas’, Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education…
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…
A new syllabus
…appalled others: away from comprehensive education and towards academic selection. *** As for England’s 163 remaining grammar schools, a review by the Sutton Trust, a charity, found that they improved…