Nearly two out of three secondary school teachers in England and Wales support the Tomlinson Review of the school curriculum for 14-19 year olds, according to a MORI survey commissioned…
Non-grammars are most socially selective state schools
…little in common with the local communities in which the schools are based. “The figures also suggest that grammars are not enrolling as many academically able pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds…
Highly able pupils do worse in deprived schools
…new research from the Sutton Trust has found. The report suggests that these differences are due to a number of factors associated with advantaged schools, including a ‘peer effect’ by…
Sutton trust: prep schools provide four times more grammar school entrants than FSM pupils
…grammar schools are entitled to free school meals, whereas 12.7% of entrants come from outside the state sector, largely from independent schools. By contrast, around 16% of pupils are eligible…
Most UK university endowment funds fail to grow as US funds increase by a quarter in a decade
…is available here. For the report, the Sutton Trust analysed data from the Higher Education Chronicle in the US and Caritas data in the UK, and comparative 2002 data from…
Rates of Eligibility for Free School Meals at the Top State Schools
…sited. The study finds that the overall rate of FSM eligibility at the top schools is 3.0%, compared to a national secondary school average of 14.3%. 1069 20050601 2005 23676…