Writing for the Sun, Kevin Schofield featured Nicky Morgan’s speech ahead of the Sutton Trust/Education Endowment Foundation Summit. See below for an extract: Top firms are prejudiced against bright kids…
Funds shortfall for poorest schools
…£250,000. Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation, said: “There is no doubt that the pupil premium has enabled schools to do more to…
Lee Elliot Major: A world-class education should not be the preserve of the privileged few
Lee Elliot Major wrote to the Daily Telegraph in response to an article on social mobility. James Bartholomew (Comment, June 16) is wrong to assert that Britain’s poor level of…
Oxbridge salary premium laid bare
…graduated from a newer university, research shows. It reveals a significant earnings premium for Oxbridge graduates, who are also likely to have higher salaries when they start work than students…
Parents pay half a million in housing premium for state school education
…a bid to get their children into the most sought-after schools. Parents pay an average of £21,000 extra compared to average property prices in neighbouring areas, if they want to…
‘Wage premium’ for fee-pay schools
…schools would radically change. The number of children coming from the top 10% of household incomes would roughly halve, the study says, while the proportion of children coming from the…