…biased against boys. “He comes home from school in tears, tells me he’s stupid, dumb and should be in special needs,” said Trussler, 44, a home help from Guildford, Surrey….
Five things we learned from the higher education entry figures
…worked, rather than blithely throwing money at the problem. In 2015/16 English universities will spend a total of £720m on access schemes. Too few will bother to ensure this goes…
Sir Peter Lampl: letter on Oxbridge Admissions
…school students. However, the universities should consider their own admissions procedures carefully to ensure that they are not hindering further progress on access simply to preserve traditional processes. While familiar…
Written question on Private Pay Progression
…open up opportunities to candidates from all backgrounds. These employers have committed to adapt their outreach activities, their work experience programmes, and their recruitment processes to ensure that candidates from…
Care urged over school ‘fairer’ funding shake-up
…results. Ministers are expected to publish plans on “fairer funding” for England’s schools soon after the Spending Review. The government says it wants to ensure that all areas are funded…
Peers from across parties cite Chain Effects
…Perhaps he will cast his eye over the Sutton Trust research, which showed that, compared with mainstream schools, sponsored academies have lower grades and are twice as likely to be…