…to ensure that our Pupil Premium funding for disadvantaged pupils supports children across the entire ability range: not just helping pupils cross the C grade boundary but converting B grades…
Post-graduate loans will help low and middle income students
Commenting on the introduction of post-graduate student loans announced today, Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of The Sutton Trust, said; “We welcome the Chancellor’s announcement that he will extend income contingent…
Oliver Wright: You wouldn’t give your child untested medicine, so why would you give them an untested education?
…works. Over the last 50 years the scientific community has created a well-established procedure of peer reviewed and randomised control studies to ensure that new interventions are better than, or…
Education study finds in favour of traditional teaching styles
…teaching profession, which has seen vigorous debates between “progressive” and “traditional” best practice. Professor Robert Coe of Durham University, one of the authors, said assessing effective teaching was difficult, because…
Managing the cost of children’s music tuition
…be diverted to ensure that poorer youngsters can benefit from this “cultural capital”. Conor Ryan, director of research at the charity, says that this could come from the pupil premium…
Conor Ryan: How good is a teacher? Check the exam results
…is also important that the baseline for such comparisons is sufficiently robust. With classroom observations – where teachers or school leaders witness teaching in practice – the report suggests that…