Greg Hurst in The Times covers new Sutton Trust Research on school admissions procedures. Growing numbers of academies and free schools have introduced admissions lotteries or ability assessments to ensure…
More schools ‘should allocate places using lotteries’
…the school gates. Comprehensives using lotteries should employ “inner and outer” catchment areas, with the closest pupils given places while all others enter the random ballot, he said. “Access to…
Four-in-10 children ‘missing out on good parenting’
…age of three – storing up a series of social problems in later life. The study, commissioned by the Sutton Trust, found that strong emotional bonds between parents and children…
Grammar schools widen gap between rich and poor
…growing criticism of the system, including by the Ofsted head Sir Michael Wilshaw, who said grammar schools did nothing to promote social mobility, describing them being “stuffed full of middle-class…
Rising tuition pushes British students to US
…learned that she could attend Harvard with all her tuition paid for, “my accommodation paid for, no loan, and even travel back home — the financial aid package was really…
‘Wage premium’ for fee-pay schools
…schools would radically change. The number of children coming from the top 10% of household incomes would roughly halve, the study says, while the proportion of children coming from the…