…£5.5 million in financial aid to attend universities in the United States. Two thirds of the students are from households earning less than £25,000 a year and a similar proportion…
Sutton Trust appoints first chief executive
…Access, and sits on the Social Mobility Transparency Board. He was previously an education journalist, working for the Guardian and Times Higher Education Supplement. NOTES TO EDITORS 1. The Sutton…
Oliver Wright: You wouldn’t give your child untested medicine, so why would you give them an untested education?
…mid-range and lower attaining learners. On average, studies show that higher attaining learners make between one and two additional months’ progress when set or streamed compared to when taught in…
Later school start time ‘may boost GCSE results’
…100 schools will assess whether a later school start leads to higher grades. … The study is one of six projects funded by £4m from the Education Endowment Foundation and…
Student rewards such as cash and free trips fail to improve GCSE results
…of Chicago. Professor Simon Burgess of Bristol University, who helped design the study, which was funded by the Education Endowment Foundation, said: “I was very disappointed with these results. I…
Schools told: cash bribes ‘fail to improve GCSE grades’
…for higher levels of attendance, behaviour and homework led to increased effort in the classroom. … The latest study, which was commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation, a government-funded charity,…