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Behavioural issues in primary school increases a student’s risk of not achieving five good GCSEs.
Labour’s Ed Miliband says that advantaged pupils are much more likely to go to university. Is he right?
A new study has suggested the answer is one hour a day. But that might not be right for everyone.
Nick Clegg has hailed the success of the coalition’s policies in closing the gap between richer and poorer students. Is he right?
Cultural vouchers for poor kids could help them get better A Levels.
Education secretary Nicky Morgan said free schools push up standards in neighbouring schools and are popular and effective.
The army of teaching assistants working in English schools still have an unclear role in the classroom.
Natural light, temperature and good air quality all help create a ‘clever classroom’.
Ed Miliband’s pledge that Labour, if elected, would limit school classes for five, six and seven-year-olds to 30 pupils reignites a core question about how best to spend money to improve education. In…
Science and mathematics subjects have traditionally been seen as the forte of high-achieving, white, middle-class pupils. And, in an effort to boost the number of scientists and engineers in the UK, over…
It is not yet possible to tell whether the government’s flagship academies policy has been “a positive force for change” in the English education system. That’s the finding of a long-awaited report by…
Overcoming educational disadvantage is not easy. Even before they enter the school gates for the first time, a variety of factors including inheritance, social class, parenting style and family income…
Is your birthday in June or December? An irrelevant question for most adults, but for children whether they were born in the summer or the winter can have a real impact on how well they perform at school…
Private tutoring is used by many parents around the world to supplement their children’s education and boost their chances of success at school. In England, several surveys have estimated the prevalence…
Children who do more physical activity are likely to improve their health and it might also help them improve their school grades. Those are the findings of recent research from Sweden which suggest that…
We ask young people to make a lot of life-changing decisions. At 13 or 14 you choose GCSE subjects. Make the wrong choice and you could be ruling out your chance to pursue medicine or a number of other…
The idea that children can inherit the ability to get good results at school can spark heated debate. But, put simply, all this means is that children differ in how easy and enjoyable they find learning…
The streaming of children at primary school by their ability is actually widening the achievement gap between low and high-attaining pupils. Our research has shown that streaming in primary school leads…
It doesn’t matter if a school is outstanding or struggling, or if the majority of pupils are well-off or not – it’s likely that there will be a gap between how well poorer pupils perform compared to their…
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Professor of Education, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Education Research, School of Education, Durham University
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Professor of Education, Durham University
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Director of the Centre for Professional Education, University of Warwick
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Associate Research Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Warwick
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
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Assistant Professor Conflict Resolution, Trinity College Dublin
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Senior research economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Lecturer in Economics and Social Statistics, UCL
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Associate Professor in Tourism Management/Marketing, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Education, Furman University
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Professor of Education, School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia
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Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford
