Greg Hurst quoted Sir Peter Lampl in his Times report of this year’s PISA results Britain’s schools have failed to improve their performance in international tests over the past three…
Sir Peter Lampl: Bridging the social divide: Britain’s worsening social mobility problem
Sir Peter Lampl writes for the Sunday Express on the Social Mobility Commission’s latest report. An Oxbridge degree gives you a successful career. But we have very low social mobility…
Phone app aids early learning for poor families, say experts
…to Oxford University experts. They carried out a randomised controlled trial of EasyPeasy, an app that offers tips and games for parents and carers of children from two to six,…
School help ‘must target poor white pupils’
…who get the worst GCSE results of all the main ethnic groups, amid growing concern about stark disparities in attainment. A study by the Sutton Trust education charity found that…
White students are keeping their grip on elite universities despite school struggles
…that white students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds had worse test results than students with a similar background from any other main ethnic group. And while disadvantaged students from other…
Is Private Tutoring To Blame For Educational Inequality?
…differences in attitudes to education in their communities. We’ve seen big improvements in results in many BME communities in the last decade, and pupils from many Asian communities perform best…