…and ambitious 100% financial aid packages appears to be having an impact. These universities are also prepared, unlike their counterparts in the UK, to invest in specific initiatives targeted explicitly…
Teachers value life skills over academic qualifications for pupils’ life chances
…is achieved through our ‘Add, Build, Challenge’ model. Our teachers model good communication, and allow students opportunities to practise and correct their communication. We have a comprehensive induction programme for…
Ofsted report on highly able: “a wake-up call to Ministers”
…Professions. The Ofsted report, The Most Able Students, is available at http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/surveys-and-good-practice/t/The%20most%20able%20students.pdf The Sutton Trust report, Educating the Highly Able by Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson is available at https://www.suttontrust.com/researcharchive/educating-the-highly-able-2/…
Educational Excellence Everywhere – the 10 initiatives first called for by the Sutton Trust
…premium: we will continue the pupil premium, and improve its effectiveness by encouraging schools and virtual school heads to adopt evidence-based strategies, drawing on evidence from the Education Endowment Foundation”…
Nearly 1 in 4 teachers think pupil premium funds may not be targeted at poorest students
…low income students in their schools, according to a new Sutton Trust poll released today. The pupil premium has been paid to schools since April 2011 to help them raise…
How should further education and apprenticeships change post pandemic?
…higher salaries and benefits, resulting in fiercer competition and often more privileged intakes; whereas disadvantaged students end up in lower-paid and lower-level options, perhaps limited to their local area. Indeed,…