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Parliament and Policy: September 2014

…Alan Milburn’s Social Mobility Commission. Policy August The Sutton Trust was quoted extensively in a Centre for Social Justice report on education “Closing the Divide”. Sutton Trust methodology and reports…

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Access issues stradle the Atlanic

…school interviewees and almost 60 per cent of those at state schools thought their choice of university would make no difference to future earnings. Similar numbers thought the same about…

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Making a Statement

…has been schools un-doing the work of the initiative. Some offered advice that was contradictory; some insisted students followed a very rigid structure; one said a student’s application to read…

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Giving pupils a sporting chance

…idea that intelligence is learnable and can be developed through effort and skillful practice has not penetrated our society widely or deeply,’ argues Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck. Dweck’s research does…