…GCSE results in the UK overall are similar to 2024. 21.9% achieved grades at 7/A or above, compared to 21.8% in 2024. Passes at 4/C and above were 67.4%, compared…
Sutton Trust comment on new Key Stage 4 data
Commenting on data on Key Stage 4 performance released today, Sir Peter Lampl, founder and Chairman of the Sutton Trust and Chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: “Today’s results…
Coming full circle
Laura Houston, UK Summer School 2010, shares how she came to be co-managing the University of St Andrews summer school she once attended. If someone had asked me at 16…
Knowing the right people more important than a university degree
…social and ethnic background. University was deemed less important for young people from the least affluent families (61% compared with 67% in ‘high affluence’ households), and white pupils (62% compared…
Free schools: Seven years on
…such a novel approach. Innovators are more common in the primary sector, with 35 per cent of 152 primary free schools which are still open found to be innovative, compared…
Lotteries used to break middle-class hold on school places
…of children face losing the automatic right to a place at their local secondary school amid a surge in the number of comprehensives using lottery-style admissions policies. Figures show that…