…found students from independent schools were 55 times more likely to get a place at Oxbridge than those eligible for free school meals. This year we published a report showing…
Reform in haste and education pays the price
…seem grander, as Latinate words do: “an organisation intended to protect and develop an art, science or language”, as in Royal Academy. So the previous government bagged it to name…
Call for private schooling for all
…areas that are over-subscribed. Research has shown that England’s top performing comprehensives and academies are “significantly more socially selective”, with fewer pupils than average on free school meals – a…
Offer all children chance of private school, parents say
…findings are part of a survey commissioned by the Sutton Trust, for its new ”mobility manifesto”, which sets out a series of recommendations ahead of next year’s General Election on…
FE colleges can do more to boost aspiration
…on to a variety of courses at both institutions. The college has an above average percentage of young people on free school meals and most of my Oxbridge candidates came…
Real choice for the squeezed middle
…place in some areas like plumbing. So, we need to do something radical, rather than just seeing more piecemeal change. It cannot be right that at present fewer than 200,000…