…programme who accepted places at leading US universities (The Spectator’s Notes, 29 June). This choice meant that nine of these students did not take up offers from Oxford and Cambridge….
James Turner: Government should sponsor private day schools to boost equality
James Turner writes for the Guardian. The new Sutton Trust report out today shows, for the first time, the long-term financial rewards a private education can buy. We’ve all suspected…
Robert de Vries: Wide variations found in how academy chains are improving grades for poorer pupils
…– showing a big variation across the system. Fast-moving reforms It was in March 2000 that the Labour education secretary David Blunkett outlined his vision for “City Academies”. These were…
Parliament and Policy: April and May 2014
…student loans into their 50s. Will the Minister get to the Dispatch Box and confess that this student debt system is now not only unsustainable, but unfair? Does the Conservative…
State pupils beating private school rivals
…schools when a study is published this month showing that some are outperforming private school students in their finals. The long-awaited study, the biggest of its kind, has found there…
The new ground rules for parenting
…who doesn’t want to upset the host, has stopped short of declaring that modern parents are rubbish but it has nonetheless recommended that parenting classes might be the way forward….