…a significant minority, particularly in urban areas including London, the admissions system will have been fraught with anxieties and complexity. Today’s London School of Economics report for the Trust, Ballots…
Sir Peter Lampl: We don’t need no grandiose education
…Oxbridge than 2,000 state schools and colleges combined. While the gap in GCSE results between pupils from the poorest homes — those entitled to free school meals — and other…
Lee Elliot Major: Is Michael Gove correct that the private and state school gap has narrowed significantly?
…than 2,000 comprehensives and colleges nationally. More worrying is the career prospects gap. Our research shows 60 per cent of leaders in the financial services sector are from independent schools,…
Sound Foundations: Early childcare must be top quality
The Sound Foundations researchers write in The Guardian. It is good, as you say, that there is now a political consensus building around the need to offer some childcare from…
Parliament and Policy: June 2014
…MP Alex Cunningham and Conservative children’s minister Liz Truss on child care. Click here to view the discussion. 18 June – The Education Select Committee report The Education Select Committee…
Is Michael Gove correct that the private and state school gap has narrowed significantly?
…entry into Oxbridge and other elite universities. One Sutton Trust study found that four independent schools and one college had more Oxbridge entrants than 2,000 comprehensives and colleges nationally. More…