…a sense that students’ can improve their results with commitment. Schools should work to improve knowledge and awareness of professional careers among less advantaged students as career aspirations are often…
The Social Composition of Top Comprehensive Schools
…of schools). Social selection is evident in top comprehensive schools: the overall proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at the 200 highest performing comprehensives is 5.6%, compared to…
Top comprehensive schools take half the number of poorer pupils than the average
…knowledge of education research. www.nfer.ac.uk @TheNFER Data used for this report was sourced from public Department for Education, Scottish Government and Welsh Government figures, in combination with pupil-level data sourced…
Culture club
…competitive education system. These indicators of knowledge and understanding of education are examples of cultural capital, non-financial resources that refer to the knowledge, behaviours and skills valued by a particular…
Meeting tomorrow’s lawyers
…students from 12 programmes across the country come together as part of a journey of development, seeing them increasing in confidence and building friendships, as well as improving knowledge and…
A test of character
…world of work. Critics of teaching these skills say that it will come at the expense of young people acquiring knowledge. Toby Young put this view robustly in a recent…