Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, announced today the appointment of Julie Randles as Director of Programmes and Partnerships at the Sutton…
SNP bucks trend for privately educated MPs
…the parliamentary faction with the fewest public schoolboys and girls. An analysis of the background of Scottish MPs show that the vast majority of Nationalists in the Commons went to…
Send best new teachers to worst schools
…raise achievement levels, while plans to identify and help struggling pupils should be at the heart of the schools inspection process, the report said. View the original article here. …
Exams end class divide as record number take up university place
…their entry requirements to accept applicants who had narrowly missed their targets. Experts predicted that the number of students accepted by universities this year would pass 500,000 for the first…
The Speaker’s Business: Why John Bercow’s successor must tackle unpaid internships in parliament.
…give their personal commitment to tackling unpaid and unadvertised internships in parliament. There are currently no rules set out within Parliament to stop MPs from taking on unpaid interns, or…
Letter to Maddy
…way, you can’t get 9*) How well you do will come down mostly to how you perform in end-of-year tests. There will be little if any assessment by teachers through…