…Wales. Across all these studies, a similar pattern has been found: that the highest performing non-selective state schools take in relatively few children eligible for free school meals, compared to…
Importance of university falling
…people from the least affluent families (58% compared with 41% in ‘high affluence’ households), and those in single parent households (52% compared with 44% for two-parent households). Among pupils who…
Beyond expectations
…likely to see themselves attending university. 67% of those on free school meals see themselves as likely, compared to 79% of non-disadvantaged pupils, or 81% of those in the most…
Grammar schools given £50m to take extra pupils
…a child is ten times more likely to go to a grammar if they attended a private prep school than if they are on free school meals. But the plans…
How can we make contextual admissions more accessible?
…We are also promoting the use of and access to individual markers such as Free School Meals in the admissions process, as well as encouraging universities to make more ambitious…
Middle-class teenagers hoovering up best apprenticeships
…in 10 young women eligible for free school meals, took up an apprenticeship compared with one in seven of the cohort overall, it said. Two fifths of the three million…