…numbers of students from low and middle-income families applying to study medicine. It will reach 180 students over three years, offering them the support and information they need to compete…
Shortage of high-quality childcare places puts two-year-old scheme at risk
Nursery World covers the issues raised in the Sutton Trust’s Sound Foundations report. Read the full article here….
Poorer students have little knowledge of bursaries on offer
…higher education reported that avoiding debt had affected their decision ‘much’ or ‘very much’. More than half (56%) of all the students surveyed who were thinking of going into higher…
Record numbers of pupils aim for university
…2,329; 2008: 2,374)) Pre-2008 figures include respondents who did not state an answer Self-completion questionnaires were completed in 106 classroom sessions between 9th January and 3rd April 2009. Data have…
OFFA: Sutton Trust welcomes increased outreach, but warns access gap still too high
Commenting on the new OFFA/HEFCE report on university access agreements, Conor Ryan, Director of Research at the Sutton Trust, said today: “The increased investment in access and outreach funding reported…
Real Apprenticeships
…population size. Also, only 36% of UK apprenticeships are 3 years at Level 3 or higher; this compares poorly with Germany, which not only has a much higher participation rate,…