Having spent the last 20 years teaching at an FE College, a retiring lecturer reflects on what it takes to support bright students I have just retired from an FE…
What teachers should tell their Oxbridge candidates
…how a candidate can debate and argue and think on their feet. The whole point is to stretch a student beyond their comfort zone: taking on new ideas, making connections,…
Primary movement
…pool of students for whom leading universities and competitive careers are an option. The answers are not straightforward. We know from research commissioned by Joseph Rowntree, for example, that there…
How alumni build academic assets
…Cambridge has had considerable fundraising success doesn’t come as a surprise to me at all. As an alumnus, I’ve had numerous contacts from both the University and my College in…
Teaching assistants do make a difference
…four years in 10 weeks. The positive findings come after previous large-scale studies declared that teaching assistants made no difference to student attainment and could have a negative impact when…
A major programme is launched to ‘dispel the myths’ surrounding Oxbridge
…other leading universities. Some 2,500 teachers from schools with a poor record of sending children to sought-after institutions will be attracted to the programme over five years… …James Turner, director…