…Oxbridge than 2,000 state schools and colleges combined. While the gap in GCSE results between pupils from the poorest homes — those entitled to free school meals — and other…
Parliament and Policy: April and May 2014
…president of the National Union of Students. Figures this morning from the Sutton Trust and the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that Toni’s generation will now be paying off their…
Parliament and Policy: February 2014
…Sutton Trust report, “The Reading Gap”, from July 2013. It showed that boys aged 15 from disadvantaged backgrounds are some two and a half years behind their counterparts from the…
Fear of performance pay may be dwindling
…and to give schools the flexibility to pay their best teachers more, have sparked national and regional strikes. The NUT has threatened to hold a further national strike over pay,…
Over half the country’s top journalists went to private schools
…who are privately educated in influential positions in society, which follows similar findings from surveys of top lawyers and politicians. It cannot be healthy for our media leaders to come…
Ballots in school admissions
…families are most committed to the Christian faith (20%). When given the specific scenario of an over-subscribed comprehensive school, nearly as many people (32%) think that a ballot is the…