…by how normal it was and how ordinary everybody else seemed. We were given our timetables for a week packed full of lectures, projects and activities. That first evening we…
Summer learning
…working full time. I was asked to comment on the story of two Lincolnshire primary schools which became the some of the first in England to abandon the traditional six-week…
Cathkin high pupils getting ready to live the American dream
Douglas Dickie for the Daily Record in Scotland reports on US summer school success A Cambuslang teenager has taken advantage of a financial aid package to take her place at…
Conor Ryan: University funding challenge
Conor Ryan wrote for Public Finance in Jan/Feb 2015 on university funding As the general election looms, Nick Clegg’s decision to back a trebling of tuition fees could come back…
Welsh teenager fast-tracked to Yale
Nicola Woolcock reports for The Times on Ellie Atkinson’s success in the Sutton Trust US programme Ellie Atkinson began competing in sport only to make up the numbers in a…
We Chose Apprenticeships Over Going To University – And Have Never Looked Back
…prospects at some universities being uncomfortably low, there’s been a surge in school-leavers embarking on apprenticeships rather than packing their bags for freshers week. Research collated in a Sutton Trust…