…why there was a social mobility problem in the legal profession, respondents who think something is preventing candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds from getting law training contracts revealed that a large…
Students face extra repayments of £2,800 if repayment threshold frozen on existing loans
Changes from Chancellor George Osborne’s summer budget which would freeze the student loan repayment threshold at £21,000 for five years will cost the typical borrower an extra £2,800. This new…
Oxbridge graduates teaching in state secondary schools double in decade
…500,000 pupils in the UK. Teaching By Degrees can be accessed from 0001 on Friday 19th June at www.suttontrust.com Teaching By Degrees updates the findings of Teacher Qualifications, a 2003…
Bright disadvantaged pupils get better A-levels through reading for pleasure, education trips and regular homework, as well as good schools
…professions. For more information visit suttontrust.com. Subject to Background by Professor Pam Sammons, Dr Katalin Toth and Professor Kathy Sylva, from Oxford University Department of Education, draws on data from…
New £1m fund to find the best ways of working with parents to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children
…vocabulary. The attainment gap between pupils eligible for free school meals and all other pupils persists through school. At age eleven the gap between Free School Meals pupils and their…
The Sutton Trust is funding two summer schools with UCL this year
…from the British Museum. Students will develop their ability to question, to analyse critically and to synthesise an argument from a number of sources. There were six applications to UCL’s…