New research published by the Oxford Review of Education suggests students who attended state schools are a third more likely to get a top degree at a leading university than their independently educated counterparts with similar A-level results.
The government has launched a new scheme that will recruit 1,500 ‘elite’ teachers and send them into under performing and failing schools to improve standards.
The government aims to have at least 90 per cent of pupils taking the full slate of Ebacc subjects at GCSE, according to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.
Due to a serious shortage of capital funding, around 700 academies have been ‘pushed’ into applying for loans in order to pay for urgent building improvements.
Planned cuts to bursaries for trainee primary teachers in England, starting next year, have sparked fears that the pay reductions could fuel the teacher recruitment crisis.
School’s in England should look to New York City and ‘build upwards’ to meet the demand for additional pupil places, according to schools minister Lord Nash.
