Barry Sheerman, MP for Huddersfield and former chairman of the House of Commons Education Committee, will chair a new Education Advisory Group, set up by the Sutton Trust to help…
Hiding in plain sight
…At one fridge company in Munich, for example, a three-year long apprenticeship involves six months in different parts of the firm, from marketing to manufacturing, he says. This makes the…
PRIVATELY EDUCATED GRADUATES IN TOP JOBS GET BIGGER PAY RISES
…privileged peer (£36,036 compared with £31,586). Half of this difference can be explained by factors such as prior academic attainment and the type of university attended, but the remaining half…
US university places won by UK state pupils
…students received prestigious merit scholarships, including the Morehead-Cain Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Woodruff Scholarship at Emory University. Read her full report here….
American Eagles take flight
…in 18 states; 19 will be attending an Ivy League Institution. Seven students received highly-competitive and prestigious merit scholarships including the Morehead-Cain Scholarship at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Woodruff Scholarship…
Will Hutton: As long as we are divided by our education system, Britons will never grow equally
…and A-level results, a legacy of the last Labour government melding a Woodheadian commitment to academic rigour with more collectivist money and encouraging and rewarding better leadership. A generation of…