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Pupil premium ‘plugs budget holes’

BT.com reporting on our Pupil Premium polling. Some schools are using extra funding designed to help their poorest pupils to boost the results of all youngsters, or to plug holes…

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Poor students ‘lose on grade predictions’

…forecast by their schools. But the charity warns that poorer students are more likely to have their grades under-predicted. Report author Dr Gill Wyness said it was vital that “disadvantaged…

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Britain’s dying dream of social mobility

…social mobility: high income inequality, high social segregation in housing, less social connectivity in communities, fewer two parent families, and poorly performing schools. Falling absolute mobility Workers’ wages have declined…