…the development of the Teaching Excellence Framework and creation of the Social Mobility Advisory Group. However, we are concerned that the proposals to merge the Office for Fair Access into…
Context dependent
…attainment from independent schools. This backed up earlier work by Bristol University, which found it was warranted to give students from low performing schools a different A level offer because…
Home and away: the British teenagers who have won scholarships at America’s top universities
…state-school students from Britain travelled across the Atlantic in September to enroll. The scheme targets students from families with low annual incomes, the majority with less than £25,000. Many will…
Alternative routes to advancing access
…way they admit students. Stuart Schmill from MIT and Rebekah Westphal from Yale described how needs blind admission – making university effectively free to children from homes with an income…
Britain’s stiff upper climb
…data on this question comes from the Canadian economist, Miles Corak. Professor Corak is arguably the world’s leading experts on international social mobility comparisons, and delivered the opening address at…
Building an apprenticeships consensus
…to government demands. Pearson is starting to do this by creating a panel of world-class experts from Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Harvard University and leading universities and schools in the…