Laura Houston, UK Summer School 2010, shares how she came to be co-managing the University of St Andrews summer school she once attended. If someone had asked me at 16…
A view from both sides
…you are expected to have even more than just good academic grades. But gaining essential work experience to complement your CV is not easy, especially if your local community is…
A Class Act: Transforming socio-economic diversity in the creative industries
…RTÉ and TG4. She is currently working with MakeMatic on their flagship ‘Essentials’ series: a series of 500 animated videos to complement the US History syllabus across all year groups….
App games and tips help toddlers develop
…evaluation of EasyPeasy carried out with a different community demographic in Bournemouth, which showed significant positive benefits for children’s cognitive self-regulation and parents’ setting of boundaries. Previous research commissioned by…
Sutton Trust responds to the Social Mobility Commission’s ‘State of the Nation’ report
Our response to the latest report from the Social Mobility Commission, which provides devastating insight into the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sir Peter Lampl, founder and chairman of the…
Commonly used markers of disadvantage ‘not effective’ at identifying low-income students
…CACI Limited. The data must thus be paid for by employers and universities. The Acorn classification system combines information from the Land Registry, administrative data and commercial data to divide…