…and has the potential to make a real difference in narrowing attainment gaps. 70% of its target group is White British. The experience of minority ethnic communities suggests cultural change…
A Taste of Honey 50 years on
…Manchester’s poor any better off now? The Salford council house where Shelagh Delaney lived hasn’t changed much in the 58 years since, at age 18, she sat down here and…
Top legal jobs still dominated by private schools
…not changed significantly in the last 15 years, according to the analysis undertaken by the Sutton Trust. The survey found that in 2004 three out of four judges, more than…
Postgraduates earn £200,000 premium as basic degree no longer enough
…low and middle income backgrounds are increasingly priced out of postgraduate study, so these changes could widen income differentials and reduce opportunities for social mobility. Those with postgraduate degrees also…
Access to the workplace
…matters because their decisions affect our day-to-day lives. Yet young people from disadvantaged backgrounds still face significant barriers to accessing the most competitive careers, from politics and law, to medicine,…
Sutton Trust response to the Government’s announcement on student maintenance funding
Commenting on the government’s announcement that maintenance grants will not be reintroduced alongside increases to tuition fees and maintenance loans, Carl Cullinane, Director of Research and Policy at the Sutton…