…pupils the most, improving their reading age by almost half a year. The Accelerated Reader initiative involved 349 pupils in the first year of secondary school who had not achieved…
The privileged are taking over the arts
…that golden age was just about to come. As he wrote his venerable text in the Hull of the mid-1950s, not far down the road, in another northern port, a…
Peter Lampl: Open top independent schools to all on merit
“If access to an independent education leads to increased opportunities why shouldn’t access to that education be open to all?” – asks Sir Peter Lampl in an article for the…
Schools told: cash bribes ‘fail to improve GCSE grades’
…for higher levels of attendance, behaviour and homework led to increased effort in the classroom. … The latest study, which was commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation, a government-funded charity,…
Sir Peter Lampl: Why should only rich kids grow up to be judges?
…Court judges come from private schools, compared with only 7 per cent of the population; half of them were at boarding schools, where less than 1 per cent of pupils…
Sir Peter Lampl: How we fail our students
Sir Peter Lampl wrote for The Times on new university access benchmarks. TODAY’S news that the number of students from state schools going to 13 leading universities has increased by…