Richard Vaughan of The i cites findings from our newly published report on selective comprehensives and quotes Sir Peter Lampl. Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust, said…
Rosamund Irwin: Choice between private and state schools is getting more blurred
Evening Standard columnist Rosamund Irwin reflected on our Leading People report. I suppose I should feel “school-shamed”. Yesterday, as I read how Britain was failing at social mobility, I knew…
Concern over teachers’ university advice
Javier Espinoza reported for the Daily Telegraph on Making a Statement Teachers are ruining children’s’ chances of getting to Oxbridge by giving them poor feedback, new research shows. There is…
Students are losing out as teachers’ and university tutors’ ideas about what makes a good personal statement are a “world apart”
…to definite Law wastes space and provides no useful information about the applicant”. The comparison suggests that the advice and guidance that some young people receive at school when composing…
Being an apprentice ‘better than studying for a mediocre degree’
Eleanor Harding reported for the Daily Mail on the Sutton Trust Levels of Success report School leavers who only have the grades to get into a mediocre university may be…
Where have 30 years of parental choice left school admissions?
…16. For the great majority who are pleased with their offer, it marks the end of an often fraught process. There is almost complete compliance with the letter of the…