…best apprenticeships offer young people outstanding career prospects and financial rewards,” he said. “However it’s clear that many parents just don’t know enough about apprenticeships to feel confident advising their…
Parents still prefer university to apprenticeships
…do a degree-level apprenticeship. Slightly more parents (31 per cent) said they’d advise university over an apprenticeship (27 per cent), while another quarter (23 per cent) said they thought the…
Moving the dial on contextual admissions
…outside the school gates. This means that the true potential of a young person is frequently not reflected in their A level results. We know that the university you attend…
Dare to dream
…Being identified as a first-generation university student, an immigrant, and a woman of colour from a low-income background is the ultimate experience of politicisation. It means hyper-awareness of the institutional…
The 12 social mobility stats of 2018
…Following the Jan cabinet reshuffle, we found that almost half of the new cabinet were Oxbridge graduates, compared to just 1% of the population. Our first report on internships in…
Eight schools send as many pupils to Oxbridge as three-quarters of all schools
…Oxbridge from comprehensive schools in the three years the research looked at, including Halton, Knowsley, Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Portsmouth, Rochdale, Rutland, Salford, Southampton and Thurrock. While some of these gaps…