…has losers as well as winners. But we have selection in our supposedly comprehensive schools. It is mainly done through the secret privileges (fake religious belief, close knowledge of feeder…
Pupil Premium: money matters, but nothing more than the teacher
…expensive and doomed effort, and, anyway, schools in challenging areas already received significant funding to reflect the needs of the communities they serve. I’ve always been more of an optimist,…
Higher ambitions
…communities enter higher education. That’s the context in which the Prime Minister has set his target to double participation of those disadvantaged students. However, those students will come out with…
Changing the law
…on the UK’s membership of the European Convention for Human Rights; the recent Hillsborough verdict; the legal argument for using drone strikes outside declared war zones; and the impact of…
Nick Gibb mentions Sutton Trust in speech on good teaching
…same level aged 11. Disadvantaged pupils – the very children most in need of an academic, knowledge-based curriculum – were the least likely to be given the opportunity to benefit…
Sutton Trust opens tender for university partners to deliver Pathways to Law
…and knowledge which are relevant to the legal profession, including a work experience placement. Phase four will reach another three cohorts of students, with two undertaking a two-year programme and…