…person in that role to have attended a state comprehensive. How does the new cabinet compare to previous cabinets? Although the privately educated proportion of Johnson’s cabinet is considerably higher…
Britain’s most powerful people 5 times more likely to go to private school
…2014, when 22 per cent of then Labour leader Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet were privately educated. Of current MPs in the House of Commons in 2017, 29% come from a…
Money matters
…parents (social group A) said that they send their children to a fee-paying school, but just 1% of working class parents (social group D) said the same. Even in the…
Views of our alumni
As our 20th anniversary year comes to an end, we caught up with our alumni community to find out where they are now and how the Sutton Trust has impacted…
Teacher recruitment crisis causing a school ‘science shortfall’, especially in Physics
…than teachers elsewhere in the country. The biggest regional variations are for physics teachers: just over half of physics teachers in the East of England hold a relevant degree compared…
Vast majority of Scottish access students go to college, not university
…and Communications, Conor Ryan was a member of the Commission on Widening Access. The commission’s report, published in March, is available here. The proposal of a Commissioner for Fair Access…