…barrier is their presentation at interview – respondents allocated almost a quarter (23%) of their votes to this.[3] This was followed by a lack of pre-university educational attainment (18%), and…
Reasons to be cheerful
…optimistic – and they extend beyond Andy Murray’s Wimbledon win and the prospect of holidays. For a start, we’re entering the summer school season, the time at which many of…
Working class gender gap widens in first year of £9000 tuition fees
…Independent Commission on Fees shows today. And while the fall in acceptances did not have any disproportionate impact on less privileged areas of England overall, young male acceptances from these…
Oxbridge uplift disguises a drop in the size of the average UK endowment
David Matthews reports for the Times Higher on the Sutton Trust endowments research. Average endowments at UK universities, excluding Oxford and Cambridge, have shrunk during the past decade, according to…
Sutton Trust call for matched funding scheme needed to boost UK university fundraising
…and endowment levels. For example, the combined endowment of all UK universities is £7.8 billion, compared to Harvard’s endowment of £13.4 billion and Yale’s £8 billion. And the difference between…
Two thirds of primary heads report insufficient catch-up funding
…as the strong evidence for the effectiveness of tutoring. The polling also highlights that use of the Sutton Trust / Education Endowment Foundation Toolkit is common among secondary school senior…