…attainment gap.” Media contacts: Email: media@suttontrust.com Tel: 0207 802 1660 or 07791 044 564 Notes to Editors: Data included in the report Tutoring: The new landscape comes from: The Ipsos…
One-third of MPs in new House of Commons was privately educated
…colleagues. MPs educated at comprehensive schools now make up 49% of the House, a rise from 43% in 2010. Comprehensive schools were attended by almost two thirds of Labour MPs…
Sir Peter Lampl comments on Education Select Committee report on multi-academy trusts
Commenting on the Education Select Committee’s report on the performance, accountability and expansion of multi-academy trusts, Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Sutton Trust, said: “The Committee…
BALLOTS AND BANDING ON THE RISE, ESPECIALLY IN ACADEMIES, AS SCHOOLS SEEK FAIRER INTAKES
…which can set their own admissions policies. 17% of sponsored academies used one or both criteria, compared with 5% of all comprehensives. The number of schools allocating places according to…
Sutton Trust submission to the House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee on Social Mobility and Education and Access to the Professions
The Sutton Trust’s submission to the House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee on Social Mobility and Education and Access to the Professions. 978 20090630 2009 23781…
Elitist Britain: Segregation in schooling & privileged pathways to power
…still producing better results than comprehensives.[4] Here comes the market Change was initiated under the Conservatives with their belief that competition through a market ideology could drive up standards in…