Evening Standard columnist Rosamund Irwin reflected on our Leading People report. I suppose I should feel “school-shamed”. Yesterday, as I read how Britain was failing at social mobility, I knew…
Concern over teachers’ university advice
Javier Espinoza reported for the Daily Telegraph on Making a Statement Teachers are ruining children’s’ chances of getting to Oxbridge by giving them poor feedback, new research shows. There is…
Students are losing out as teachers’ and university tutors’ ideas about what makes a good personal statement are a “world apart”
…to definite Law wastes space and provides no useful information about the applicant”. The comparison suggests that the advice and guidance that some young people receive at school when composing…
Being an apprentice ‘better than studying for a mediocre degree’
Eleanor Harding reported for the Daily Mail on the Sutton Trust Levels of Success report School leavers who only have the grades to get into a mediocre university may be…
Sir Peter Lampl: High price to pay for medical schools
…numbers of students from low and middle-income families applying to study medicine. It will reach 180 students over three years, offering them the support and information they need to compete…
Alternative routes to advancing access
…John Jerrim’s research. Both the Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts, in his summit address and Oxford University in a press statement complained that it was unfair to compare the…