Lee Elliot Major and Sophie Maddocks on the background to today’s Evaluating Access report. The Government’s call to double the proportion of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds enrolling onto degrees…
A test of character
Sir Peter Lampl on why today’s new EEF trials of character education could help improve vital social skills for disadvantaged young people. The debate on school standards too often comes…
So long, farewell….
…the passion and energy of others. From classroom teachers to school leaders, from Foundation heads to entrepreneurs starting new social businesses, from Vice-Chancellors to access officers, there are lots of…
Will Hutton: As long as we are divided by our education system, Britons will never grow equally
…from the richer fifth of neighbourhoods are nine times more likely to go to a good university than the fifth from the poorest. Inequality defines life chances. Part of the…
Over a third of clever but poor boys significantly underachieve at GCSE
…with just under a quarter (24%) getting disappointing GCSE results. These figures compare with 16% of boys and 9% of girls from better off homes who similarly fall behind by…
Weighing up the evidence
…reorientating all parts of the system- from the grass roots deliverer upwards – is a massive challenge. One modest suggestion from me, after ten years at the Sutton Trust, is…