…English speakers, who can take up more teaching time. …… But the authors of the report, Professors Steve Strand and Victoria Murphy, warned the overall figures masked a huge range…
Conor Ryan: Why the number of failing schools can be a good thing
Sutton Trust research director Conor Ryan writes for The Times on lessons from the primary school test results. Yesterday’s league tables brought mixed news for England’s primary schools. Overall, standards…
Parliament and Policy: February 2014
…Sutton Trust report, “The Reading Gap”, from July 2013. It showed that boys aged 15 from disadvantaged backgrounds are some two and a half years behind their counterparts from the…
US academe gives Britain a lesson on bottom line
Helen Warrell reports for the Financial Times on Sutton Trust research showing a growing university endowments gap between the US and UK. When it comes to UK university funding, small…
College hurdles for ‘disadvantaged’
…and statistics from the admissions service UCAS to look at different trends in university application and entry rates. Overall, English 18-year-olds from the most advantaged backgrounds were 2.8 times more…
Most students still want to go to university
…complacency in our attitude to widening participation. “While only a minority of young people overall are worried by the prospect of student debt, these findings show that for students in…