…it proved last week when the universities minister, David Willetts, confirmed the demise of the national scheme aimed at raising university aspirations among less privileged school children. From July 2011…
Sir Peter Lampl: Tuition fees up, social mobility down
…details of a £150m national scholarship fund to help the most needy students, including by waiving their first two years of fees. Ed Miliband, on the other hand, called for…
On your bike – social mobility outside London
…towers of Westminster – seem a million miles away from a crumbling social housing estate in the North East. The challenge for organisations like ours is to reach these communities…
The Trouble With Boys
…by Denis Mongon and Christopher Chapman from Manchester University with the National Union of Teachers in 2008 suggested that some school leaders were better than others at narrowing this gap….
We need the best postgrads, not just the richest
…economic benefits in having a better educated workforce in today’s global economy. And last year’s report from the Higher Education Commission highlighted a growing demand for expertise in science, technology,…
Can we reach consensus on secondary reform?
…draft national curriculum makes little change to range of subjects that students take – computing replaces ICT, but PSHE, citizenship and PE remain statutory requirements, even if their programmes of…