…the Sun) https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8023788/two-thirds-of-academy-chains-performing-badly/ Two-thirds of academy chains ‘below average for disadvantaged pupils’ (Martin George, Tes) https://www.tes.com/news/two-thirds-academy-chains-below-average-disadvantaged-pupils Academy chains fail poorer pupils (Rosemary Bennett, the Times) https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Times-Chain-Effects.pdf Academy chains ‘fail poorer…
Leading People 2016
…British https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/best-of-british-britains-got-talent-but-are-we-recognising-all-of-it/ Recommendations 1 light-green 1 The Careers and Enterprise Company should be resourced and encouraged to trial and identify what works in careers advice for disadvantaged pupils Good internships…
Chain Effects 2014
…FALL BEHIND https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/best-academy-chains-outperform-mainstream-average-poorer-pupils-weakest-ones-fall-behind-new-sutton-trust-research/ Robert de Vries on Chain Effects https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/chain-effects/ Key Findings 1 pink 1 There is very significant variation in outcomes for disadvantaged pupils, both between and within chains;…
Elitist Britain 2019
…have been to a private school https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/elitist-britain-five-times-more-likely-to-go-to-private-school/ 3 pink Key Findings blue-dark 1 Two fifths (39%) of the elite group as a whole were privately educated, more than five times…
Pay As You Go?
…2018 23800 67 Press release: Over a quarter of graduates have taken on an unpaid internship https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/over-a-quarter-of-graduates-have-taken-on-an-unpaid-internship/ Rebecca Montacute: A question of legality – the law surrounding unpaid internships https://www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/a-question-of-legality-law-surrounding-unpaid-internships/…
Three in four academy chains have ‘coasting schools’, but best chains continue to ‘transform’ pupils’ life chances
…– those entitled to the pupil premium – in sponsored academies in 34 chains from 2012-2014. The report, Chain Effects 2015, includes an index comparing the chains’ 2014 performance for…