…Milburn, David Johnston, Paul Gregg and the Conservative peer Gillian Shephard have resigned from their posts at the Social Mobility Commission. The Government will be appointing a new chair in…
A third of heads “using funding for poorer pupils to plug gaps” in their school’s budget new Sutton Trust polling of teachers
…46 topics and summarises research from over 11,500 studies. The Toolkits are live resources which are regularly updated. The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) is a leading independent provider…
New school funding proposals will not address the ‘double disadvantage’ faced by poorer pupils in deprived areas
…from a disadvantaged background and who lived in a poorer neighbourhood were much less likely to take A-levels than disadvantaged pupils from better-off areas. Historically, schools in neighbourhoods with high…
Money Matters
Sir Peter Lampl on the lessons from our latest teacher polling A few weeks ago, we published our submission to the government’s consultation on the National Funding Formula. We highlighted…
Dreaming spires don’t mean a dream job
…year was £29,858, compared with a national average of £22,500. For females it was £24,409, nearly £4,000 more than the national average for women. *** Read the full article here….
OECD at a glance
…tour presenting the latest OECD international comparisons of education. This is now a truly global event. Andreas had just flown in from a trip that included Shanghai, Japan, Seattle and…