…changes that could leave them with higher debts than middle-class graduates helped by their parents, a report says. The Sutton Trust’s commission on fees looked at Budget changes such as…
Funding reforms mean ‘substantially higher debt for poorest students’
…poorest students”. It said the benefits claimed for the public finances would also be short-lived as a high rate of non-repayment by students over the coming decades would increase the…
Advancing the able
…First, many of the interventions that could help support highly able children to reach their full potential are zero or low cost. For example, a highly able child should have…
Higher fees fail to deter students from poor areas
…Service showed, defying predictions that higher fees would deter poor students. The application rates from 18-year-olds living in the most disadvantaged areas in England rose from 18 to 21 per…
More support needed for highly able students
Responding to evidence in the Ofsted annual report today that state schools are failing their brightest pupils Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust said; “The chief inspector paints…
Sir Peter Lampl: Fees are too high, and they do put students off
…was ever needed that high fees are a big deterrent, this is surely it — and from one of our most prestigious universities. The second issue is that fees are…