…actual exploration and implementation. What does this mean in practice? A shift away from the UK’s longstanding tradition of offering university applicants a “conditional” place based on their predicted grades,…
Disadvantaged schools struggling most with teacher recruitment
…access to suitably qualified teachers will continue to increase.” NOTES TO EDITORS The full report is available from this link. The Sutton Trust is committed to improving social mobility from…
6 findings from latest EEF report on the attianment gap
Stephen Tall, the EEF’s director of development and communications, unpicks six of the key findings from the EEF report on the attainment gap, explaining what the data tells us about…
Lessons in early years policy
…have benefited from tax credits. Sure Start children’s centres brought many services together too. The free entitlement was to 12.5 hours a week of early years education, planned locally but…
Evidence of intent
…change. By contrast Labour and the Liberal Democrats want to extend free meals throughout primary school, though this feels like a costly commitment when school budgets face so many other…
Money Matters
…for Fiscal Studies found that schools in England are facing an 8% real-term funding cut over three years, reductions that the Public Accounts Committee warn are threatening to undermine the…