…new knowledge, skills and insight to the group that would otherwise be lacking. Our chairman, Sir Peter Lampl, recounts his experiences of sitting in on a Harvard admissions committee: they…
Closing the attainment gap in schools
…towards schools serving disadvantaged communities via the Pupil Premium. The funding advantage for schools serving the most deprived communities fell be 10% between 2010 and 2021. Reversing this will be…
Are less advantaged students able to benefit fully from their university experience?
…name their local comprehensive. Balls, formal dinners and the traditions that come with them are commonplace at some of the country’s most elite institutions. They can be seen as an…
A Fair Start? Extending early years funding
…former radio journalist and has worked with one of the country’s leading consultancy firms specialising in customer care, culture change and people development. The opinions of guest authors in our…
Less than half of state teachers would advise their most able pupils to apply to Oxbridge
Less than half of secondary state school teachers say they would advise their brightest pupils to apply to Oxford and Cambridge universities, a national survey of teachers commissioned by the…
Sutton Trust comment on new Social Mobility Commission report
Commenting on new research published today by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission suggesting that more than 2,000 children from disadvantaged backgrounds who get excellent results in tests at…