…and endowment levels. For example, the combined endowment of all UK universities is £7.8 billion, compared to Harvard’s endowment of £13.4 billion and Yale’s £8 billion. And the difference between…
Closing the attainment gap in schools
…only grew by 259 full-time equivalent teachers in the year to November 2023, compared to a 2,844 rise the year before. Similarly, a 2022 report by the NFER found that…
Primary selection
…difference in free school meal intake is more than nine percentage points below that of the communities from which they recruit. The pattern seems strongest in some – though not…
Reform in haste and education pays the price
…(cases in Gloucestershire and Middlesbrough). Sometimes a plan stalls late in development (one currently in West Sussex). Sometimes a chain is banned from taking on more schools because its standards…
Equal hours?
…Edward Melhuish at the University of Oxford, is from data in the Study of Early Education and Development (SEED). The research looks in greater detail at the impact of the…
The confluence of social mobility and migration
…resulting feeling is one of both gratitude and frustration. Migratory history and economic status are intrinsically linked. When a person immigrates to the UK, the majority will experience downward mobility…