Alan Jones covers Sutton Trust new research, Better Apprenticeships, for Press Association. Disadvantaged youngsters are less likely than their better-off peers to start the best apprenticeships, a new study reveals….
ACCESS GAP TO BEST APPRENTICESHIPS
…published by the Sutton Trust today. Just 7% of young men and 11% of young women who were eligible for free school meals take up an apprenticeship at Level 3–…
Sutton Scholar wins award for ‘best effort’
…programme after a strong recommendation from his teacher at Francis Combe Academy in Watford, as well as excellent grades. He met several of the social mobility criteria for the programme;…
Mobility in the manifestos
…the parties launch their manifestos in the coming weeks, we are calling on all political parties to commit to ensuring that improving social mobility is one of their key commitments…
Sir Peter Lampl: Times letter on grammar schools
…it comes to admissions. Such children, after all, will not have had the considerable advantages of private tuition or have been to a prep school. The government should get existing…
Funding formula could force grammars to abandon work with disadvantaged pupils
…said. Sutton Trust evidence in 2013 showed that less than 3 per cent of entrants to grammar schools were entitled to free school meals. *** Read the full article here….