Dr Lee Elliot Major, CEO of the Sutton Trust, reflects on what this year’s GCSE results mean for those obtaining grades 1, 2 and 3. While the papers showed pictures…
Science made simple
…for resourceful ways to spend their pupil premium funding. We’ve published nine more reports today, the results of trials we have funded and evaluated. These include the results of Improving…
Freedom to teach well?
…Stanford, with Stephen Machin and Richard Murphy at the LSE, have shown that English schools could improve their low position in international league tables in Reading and Mathematics and become…
Teachers say student progress should be considered in salaries
…and results, according to a new survey. 52% of teachers said that “considering the progress and results of pupils they teach” should be one of the criteria used to decide…
Fear of performance pay may be dwindling
…decisions on a “balanced scorecard” of measures. Sutton Trust chair Sir Peter Lampl said the results of the survey revealed a “positive response by a majority of teachers to performance-related…
New study to gauge the impact of Aptitude Tests for university entrance
…identify students from disadvantaged backgrounds who may have the potential to benefit from higher education. The SAT results will be compared with A level results and later with students’ degree…