…years have documented how few children from poorer homes access the highest performing comprehensive schools – even when those schools are on their doorsteps. And what one school does has…
Legally privileged: Law’s perpetual social mobility problem
…Supreme Court are the most socially exclusive group of all. 65% went to an independent school – compared with 7% of the UK population. 71% are Oxbridge-educated – compared with…
Disadvantaged schools struggling most with teacher recruitment
…ability to find suitable teachers. This compares to a third (35 per cent) of teachers in state secondary schools with the lowest number of disadvantaged pupils and just 11 percent…
England’s Lionesses – a class act?
…success, we’ve also looked at England’s current squad of Lionesses, and the results are no different, with the squad made up almost entirely of players who went to comprehensives (94%),…
Making the case for contextual admissions
…choice. The Government’s Social Mobility Commission said recently that social mobility in the UK had stagnated. Inequality is now entrenched in Britain from birth to work. If we are serious…
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…