…per hour. A similar placement in Manchester would cost £4,728, or £788 a month for accommodation, bills and food, excluding transport costs which are usually paid by the employer. An…
Nearly a third of graduate interns are unpaid, each spending £926 a month to work for free
…internships last longer than 12 months. Less than 3% think internships lasting longer than a month should be completely unpaid. The new research brief, Internship or Indenture examines the cost…
Ballots and Banding
…policies. 17% of sponsored academies used one or both criteria, compared with 5% of all comprehensives. Today’s research follows reports by the Trust last year which showed that the proportion…
‘Fair banding’ for school places ‘may harm poorest
…locally to ensure “effective use of banding”, with a common test to ensure pupils did not have to sit multiple tests. …….. The [Comprehensive Future] group backs calls for banding…
Almost a third of professional parents have moved home for a good school – Sutton Trust
…lowest income parents saying they looked at none of the listed sources. By contrast, 38% of professional parents were ‘hyper choosers’, consulting at least five information sources, compared to 13%…
No More School Run – Proposal for a National Yellow Bus Scheme in the UK
A report based on an analysis of the school run by the Boston Consulting Group, which argues for the radical expansion of home-to-school transport, to address a range of environmental,…