Richard Garner reports for The Independent on new Sutton Trust research on teaching practice. Teachers who lavish praise on pupils are doing them a disservice, according to a study published…
Universities urged to lower entry grades for comprehensive school pupils
…from comprehensives with equivalent GCSE and A-level grades outperformed their more expensively educated peers at university. …… “This valuable research confirms the importance of students getting good advice on their…
Computer Tables: MORI Teachers’ Omnibus 2004 (Wave 3)
MORI computer table breakdown. 1089 20041201 2004 23667…
What do Labour have in store for educational inequality and social mobility?
…are more socially selective than the average grammar school, with a 40% shortfall of free school meals pupils at the highest attaining comprehensive schools compared to the average. That’s why…
Sutton Trust analysis of Labour cabinet
…25 Cabinet ministers, 40%** went to Oxford or Cambridge. Percentage (%) of UK Cabinet privately educated over time Commenting, Nick Harrison, Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust, said: “This Cabinet…
Balancing options: making further and vocational education a real choice post-16
…these groups did not understand the content and pathways available to those completing Level 4s and 5s, compared to young people completing a traditional university degree. There were also concerns…