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Scotland: Exclusions data could become key in push to close attainment gap
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Scotland
May 10, 2022
Scotland: Let us take risks to improve results, teachers demand
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Apr 21, 2022
Can Scottish Attainment Challenge ever truly 'work'?
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Scotland
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Apr 20, 2022
School achievement gap between rich and poor students ‘has not narrowed in a century’
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Apr 20, 2022
Report: Learning recovery in Yorkshire and the Humber
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Apr 5, 2022
Yorkshire and Humber schools are supporting learning recovery, following Covid-19 challenges
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Apr 5, 2022
Scotland: Teachers needed amid surge in sight impaired pupils
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Apr 5, 2022
Covid closures still affecting 400 million pupils globally - Unicef
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Mar 30, 2022
Scotland: School attainment gap funding to drop by £16.5m
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Mar 29, 2022
Headteachers to receive half a billion pounds to help close attainment gap
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Scotland
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Mar 29, 2022
Attainment gap fears: Scottish headteachers get £0.5bn
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Scotland
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Mar 29, 2022
Four thoughts on the Education Select Committee’s analysis of catch-up
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Mar 11, 2022
National tutoring scheme failing disadvantaged pupils, say MPs
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Mar 10, 2022
Poor pupils 'up to eight months behind' at school as Covid catch-up tutoring misses them
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Mar 10, 2022
Poorest pupils up to eight months behind their peers, MPs warn
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Mar 10, 2022
EPI responds to Education Select Committee report on the government’s pupil catch-up programme
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Mar 10, 2022
Better management practices in further education colleges boost attainment of students from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Mar 8, 2022
Attainment gap: SNP under fire over university entry rates
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Mar 7, 2022
Deaf children falling behind as specialist teacher numbers fall
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Feb 20, 2022
MPs to examine educational challenges faced by children from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
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Feb 17, 2022
How did the attainment gap change during the pandemic?
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Feb 11, 2022
What do disadvantage gaps in England tell us about levelling up?
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Feb 11, 2022
New research on the impact of Covid-19 on the disadvantage gap in primary schools
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Feb 11, 2022
Disadvantage gap widens for college and sixth form students
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Feb 10, 2022
'Decade of failure’ to narrow disadvantage gap in schools
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Feb 10, 2022
EPI on the disadvantage gap
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Feb 10, 2022
ASCL comment on EPI report highlighting the need to improve outcomes for GCSE, college and sixth form students in poverty
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Feb 10, 2022
Infographic 2: Disadvantage gaps report – detailed findings
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Feb 10, 2022
Covid-19 and disadvantage gaps in England 2020
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Feb 10, 2022
Infographic 1: Disadvantage gaps report – headline findings
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Feb 10, 2022
EEF responds to EPI report on the disadvantage gap in education
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Feb 10, 2022
‘Decade of failure’ as poor pupils still lag behind better-off peers in GCSEs
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Feb 10, 2022
‘Disadvantage gap’ entrenched as deprived teenagers fall three grades behind richer students
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Feb 10, 2022
GCSEs: ‘Decade of failure’ on closing attainment gap
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Feb 10, 2022
A decade of tinkering with education has failed to improve GCSE marks of working-class kids, says shock study
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Feb 10, 2022
Poor pupils trail richer peers at GCSE after 'dismal' efforts to close grade gap
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Feb 10, 2022
Teachers call for funding weighted towards pupils in poorer areas
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Feb 10, 2022
‘Decade of failure’ hurts poorest pupils
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Feb 10, 2022
State school pupils put in real effort during Covid but two-tier system fails them
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Feb 9, 2022
Scotland: Five key changes for attainment challenge to work
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Feb 9, 2022
Rachel Sylvester: Forget mayors, let’s level up our educational divide
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Jan 31, 2022
Scotland: Even schools at top of the class have room to improve
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Jan 31, 2022
Digest #159: The digital divide
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Jan 27, 2022
The two sides of the digital divide
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Jan 25, 2022
How regional partnerships can begin to reverse widening gaps
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Jan 22, 2022
Third of teachers warn of 18-month learning gap
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Jan 20, 2022
Teachers warn it will take 18 months for pupils to catch up after falling behind on studies during the Covid pandemic
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Jan 19, 2022
Flaws in the system: Influx of new FSM pupils causes attainment gap headache
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Jan 19, 2022
Scotland: MSPs to probe impact of pandemic on attainment
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Jan 18, 2022
We must not lose heart in the power of tutoring
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Jan 18, 2022
Exams in Scotland: SQA poised to boost pupil support
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Jan 11, 2022
Gap between Scotland's poorest pupils and the rest widens – and they may never catch up
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Dec 14, 2021
Scotland: Attainment gap in primary schools wider since Covid
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Dec 14, 2021
Covid Scotland: 'Stark' statistics lay bare impact on Scottish primary school pupils
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Dec 14, 2021
Scottish government: Tackling child poverty is the way to close educational attainment gap
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Dec 14, 2021
Grammar schools are expanding – by taking pupils who fail the 11-plus
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Dec 4, 2021
GCSEs: Pupil cash rewards 'could halve attainment gap'
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Nov 26, 2021
Universities told to tutor disadvantaged school pupils
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Nov 24, 2021
Scotland: Funding to close school attainment gap revamped
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Nov 23, 2021
Scotland: School attainment gap funding to be expanded to all 32 local authorities
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Nov 23, 2021
Scotland's attainment gap programme faces overhaul
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Nov 23, 2021
Labour unveils new council of skills advisers
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Nov 22, 2021
Widening attainment gap shows need for more Covid recovery funds
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Nov 10, 2021
The gap between Wales' richest and poorest children getting top GCSE grades has doubled in the pandemic
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Nov 5, 2021
Why longer school days are a victim of lack of ambition
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Nov 5, 2021
Disadvantaged pupils' education hit hardest by pandemic
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Nov 2, 2021
Disadvantaged pupils in England lag behind in Covid learning catch-up
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Oct 29, 2021
Rishi Sunak’s learning catch-up fund is ‘false economy’, says former schools tsar
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Sir Kevan Collins
Oct 28, 2021
Spending review: Ex-recovery tsar blasts ‘meagre’ £1.8m catch-up cash
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Oct 28, 2021
Former schools catch-up tsar Kevan Collins says ‘incredibly disappointing’ Budget will widen pupil inequality
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Sir Kevan Collins
Oct 28, 2021
Study calls for more tutoring to close attainment gap
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Oct 27, 2021
Study calls for more tutoring to close attainment gap
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Oct 27, 2021
Primary schools add extra hour to day to help children catch up after lockdown
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Oct 26, 2021
Fixing the education ship now, means fewer life rafts later
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Oct 25, 2021
Did the first wave of the pandemic increase the socio-economic achievement gap?
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Oct 22, 2021
The triple jeopardy of deprivation for online learning
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Oct 11, 2021
The Universal Credit cut is also a cut to education
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Oct 8, 2021
Why doubling PPA could help tackle the attainment gap
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Sep 27, 2021
Data reveals 'notable' drop in amount of material covered in remote-learning by children at schools in deprived areas
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Sep 22, 2021
Children in most deprived areas suffered greatest loss of learning during lockdowns – ONS
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Sep 22, 2021
Remote learning ‘partial substitute’ for classroom, with disadvantaged pupils hit hardest, analysis finds
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Sep 22, 2021
Scotland exams: Private school pupils given easier ride than state school pupils during 2021 exams, stats show
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Sep 21, 2021
SQA results: Private schools extend lead over state sector
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Sep 21, 2021
Scotland: State and private sector attainment gap hit low in 2020
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Sep 21, 2021
Covid: Two-thirds of poorer pupils 'have fallen behind'
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Sep 20, 2021
Attainment gap: Five-point plan includes overhaul of curriculum, admissions and examinations
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Sep 15, 2021
Could an admissions overhaul really close the attainment gap?
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Sep 14, 2021
ASCL proposes overhaul of school admissions to prioritise disadvantaged pupils
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Sep 14, 2021
ASCL’s blueprint to tackle education’s ‘entrenched injustice’
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Sep 14, 2021
Headteachers call for reform of school admissions to redress attainment gap
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Sep 14, 2021
How new schooling model is aiming to close gap between poor and privileged kids
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Sep 9, 2021
Has the Key Stage 4 disadvantage gap widened this year?
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Sep 7, 2021
Jules White: As a head in England, I know it’s not just Covid that will make it tough to go back to school
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Sep 2, 2021
What edu-research tells us about closing the Covid gap
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Sep 1, 2021
How can we close the digital equity gap?
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Aug 25, 2021
GCSEs 2021: Private schools extend full grade 9 lead
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Aug 20, 2021
Make 30 hours funded childcare universal to close the attainment gap
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Aug 19, 2021
New research examines the impact of the pandemic on disadvantage gaps (funded by the Nuffield Foundation)
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Aug 18, 2021
Girls better than boys in maths: Record-breaking A-level and GCSE results
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Aug 17, 2021
What’s behind the increasing attainment gap between independent and state schools?
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Aug 16, 2021
This week's record grade gap between private and state pupils one of the bitterest legacies of Covid
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Aug 13, 2021
Wales' GCSE gap widens for children from poorer backgrounds
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Aug 13, 2021
GCSE results: Disadvantaged fall even further behind wealthy
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Aug 13, 2021
GCSE results reveal further gaps in educational attainment
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Aug 12, 2021
Girls extend lead over boys in getting top GCSEs
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Aug 12, 2021
GCSEs 2021: The big divides becoming even wider
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Aug 12, 2021
A-level and GCSE results show pandemic has widened inequality
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Aug 12, 2021
SMC response to GCSE and A level results 2021
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Aug 12, 2021
GCSE attainment gap widens for disadvantaged pupils and students with SEND
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Aug 12, 2021
Pupils on free school meals less likely to get top GCSEs than privileged peers
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Aug 12, 2021
SNP savaged over ‘exam fiasco’ and told to apologise - ‘Arrogance failed young people’
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Aug 12, 2021
SNP let Scottish children down! Nicola Sturgeon skewered for ‘total lack of leadership’
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Aug 12, 2021
Widening attainment gap shows we need an education system that is fair to pupils from all backgrounds
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Aug 11, 2021
Tory MP blames teachers' unions for A-level national disaster: 700,000 comprehensive pupils got no home lessons at all during pandemic
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Aug 11, 2021
A-levels: Keir Starmer on attainment gap getting bigger
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Aug 11, 2021
Scotland's growing education 'attainment gap' between rich and poor risks reinvigorating bogus class system
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Scotland
Aug 11, 2021
Scottish exams 2021: Lowest proportion of Scotland's poorest students at university for five years
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Aug 11, 2021
It's an outrage that this year's A-level grades have served to entrench the gulf between state and private schools
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Aug 11, 2021
Private schools in England give pupils top grades in 70% of A-level entries
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Aug 10, 2021
Unconscious bias could have widened A-level attainment gap between black and white pupils
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Aug 10, 2021
A-level results 2021: Attainment gap widens for disadvantaged pupils and black students
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Aug 10, 2021
Scottish exams 2021: Another year, another failure to tackle the attainment gap
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Aug 10, 2021
The Covid class divide: How more than 70% of teacher-assessed A-levels were marked A or A* at private schools
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Aug 10, 2021
Scotland exams 2021: Covid blamed for widening of attainment gap between poorest and richest students
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Aug 10, 2021
Top A-level grades soar at private schools in widening divide with state students
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Aug 10, 2021
Predicted A-level system disadvantages Black students, experts warn
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Aug 10, 2021
SQA results day 2021: Attainment gap wider than in 2020
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Aug 10, 2021
Top A-level grades surge at private schools as gap widens for Black and poorer pupils
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Aug 10, 2021
A-level results 2021: Attainment gap widens for black and poorer pupils
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Aug 10, 2021
A levels 2021: Rising disadvantage gap for poor pupils
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Aug 10, 2021
SQA Results: Attainment gap between rich and poor Scottish pupils grows
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Aug 10, 2021
Private schools poised to widen lead over state pupils at A-level
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Aug 5, 2021
DfE's state vs private schools A-level grade gap fears
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Aug 4, 2021
Closing the attainment gap in further education
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Aug 2, 2021
Scotland: Attainment gap 'narrowing' but change deemed too slow
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Jul 21, 2021
Scrap Sats to tackle learning gap, DfE told
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Jul 20, 2021
Why literacy must drive efforts to close attainment gap
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Reading
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Jul 19, 2021
Disaggregating BAME to look at awarding gaps more closely
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Jul 16, 2021
Lockdown: 'Children behind in speech and understanding'
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Jul 12, 2021
Pupils lost a third of learning time during pandemic year
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Jul 7, 2021
Tory Government has betrayed a generation of schoolkids - this is a crisis
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Jul 6, 2021
Covid catch-up: How schools are being set up to fail
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Jul 6, 2021
Disadvantaged children fall further behind due to Covid
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Jul 5, 2021
Disadvantaged children fallen further behind due to Covid
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Jul 5, 2021
Attainment gap grown by a quarter since pandemic, study shows
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Jul 2, 2021
Where Covid learning loss has hit hardest
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Jul 1, 2021
Against the odds
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Jun 30, 2021
Does FE have a blind spot when it comes to talking about the attainment gap amongst the white working class?
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Jun 29, 2021
The massive issues Wales’ new education minister will have to tackle
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Jun 27, 2021
The trouble with white working-class pupils
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Jun 27, 2021
Poor white pupils left behind due to 'muddled thinking' from Government, MPs say
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Jun 21, 2021
Attainment gap: Record funding of £215 million pledged to support disadvantaged pupils in Scotland
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Scotland
Shirley-Anne Somerville
Jun 19, 2021
Funding of £215m to close attainment gap is announced
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Jun 19, 2021
Parents of children with special needs tell Ofsted of Covid despair
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Jun 16, 2021
Ofsted: Pandemic has worsened long-term SEND problems
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Narrow curriculum
Jun 16, 2021
Disadvantaged pupils suffer 'clear learning loss penalty' during pandemic
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Jun 7, 2021
Lost learning time in English schools widens attainment gap
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Jun 4, 2021
Pupils' post-lockdown progress was 'wiped out when schools shut again'
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Jun 4, 2021
Covid has eroded progress by disadvantaged pupils in England, finds study
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Jun 4, 2021
Pandemic learning loss has undone up to two thirds of disadvantage gap progress
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Jun 4, 2021
Covid: Pupils fell behind again in second lockdown
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Jun 4, 2021
Second lockdown 'set learning loss back to the autumn'
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Jun 4, 2021
We need to level up the education playing field
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Jun 4, 2021
It's vital we invest in helping children get back on track after pandemic
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Jun 4, 2021
One-off tutoring programmes available to all will do nothing to close gaps between the least and most disadvantaged
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Jun 2, 2021
Ofqual adds lost learning data expert to advisory board
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Jun 2, 2021
Scotland: It’s time the elite gave junior colleges a chance to shine
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Jun 2, 2021
GCSEs: is the basket beyond repair, or just overloaded?
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May 28, 2021
Delivering our new strategy: closing the attainment gap for disadvantaged children
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May 26, 2021
Covid: Teachers say poor twice as likely to be behind
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May 24, 2021
Education in Scotland is a national disgrace
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May 16, 2021
Under-fives are forgetting how to play with toys or put on shoes as more miss learning goals since Covid pandemic began
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May 14, 2021
Coronavirus: £13.5bn education package ‘needed to prevent pupils from being left behind’
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May 14, 2021
Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives
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May 14, 2021
Is ‘lost learning’ the new crisis in education?
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May 13, 2021
Education Committee to question Chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Dr Tony Sewell
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May 13, 2021
Collection of English and maths attainment data halted
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May 13, 2021
Will we have a Beveridge Report for ending the attainment gap?
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May 12, 2021
The fault line in our society
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May 8, 2021
New research indicates disadvantaged pupils have fallen further behind in maths as a result of the pandemic
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May 7, 2021
Have disadvantaged pupils fallen further behind during the pandemic?
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May 7, 2021
New Covid study finds no reading loss, but confirms maths drop
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May 7, 2021
Covid 'puts pupils an extra month behind in maths'
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May 7, 2021
How learning was hit hardest by first lockdown
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May 7, 2021
Covid: Poor pupils fall further behind in maths
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May 7, 2021
Disadvantaged primary pupils extra month behind peers due to Covid - study
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May 7, 2021
Could Covid have created a 'golden generation'?
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May 5, 2021
Scottish elections: SNP education record gets poor marks on inequality
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Apr 30, 2021
Don't 'panic' pupils over lost learning, teachers told
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Apr 29, 2021
'Not enough' poorer pupils have tutors, says Oak head
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Apr 27, 2021
Scotland: Unions are making online study harder for poorer pupils
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Apr 21, 2021
The impact of school closures on pupils with English as an additional language
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Apr 16, 2021
Election 2021: SNP to devolve financial decisions to schools
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Apr 15, 2021
Scottish leader debate: Nicola Sturgeon defends SNP record on schools
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Apr 14, 2021
Laptops, tablets and connectivity data as of 13 April 2021
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Apr 13, 2021
Government pledge to get 1.3 million laptops to children in pandemic still not met
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Apr 13, 2021
Scottish election 2021: John Swinney pledges to 'tear down' financial barriers for poorest pupils
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Apr 13, 2021
It’s elitist to mark down bad spelling, universities insist
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Apr 12, 2021
Recognising the intersectionality of poverty and race is critical to advancing educational outcomes
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Apr 8, 2021
Alex Massie: Sturgeon has failed abysmally on education
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Apr 6, 2021
Rachel Sylvester: Schools need help to spot the ‘lost Einsteins’
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Apr 5, 2021
The National Funding Formula: consideration of better targeting to disadvantaged pupils
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Mar 31, 2021
Academic mentors programme grant: conditions of funding
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Mar 31, 2021
School day should be extended starting in disadvantaged areas to help pupils catch up on lost learning, says landmark race report
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Mar 31, 2021
Our recommendations will boost schools’ ethnic minority success
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Mar 31, 2021
Extend school day with deprived areas prioritised, says race commission
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Mar 31, 2021
Race review chief reveals his schools plan to help white working-class boys
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Mar 30, 2021
Play-based stage can reduce attainment gap, say Greens
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Mar 28, 2021
How do we bridge the attainment gap?
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Mar 28, 2021
LSE tutoring programme helps tackle attainment gap in local schools
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Mar 26, 2021
Attainment gap: Nicola Sturgeon urged to set deadline
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Mar 24, 2021
Scotland: 'Slow' attainment gap progress dominates FMQs
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Mar 24, 2021
Scotland: Primary and secondary attainment gap changes revealed
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Mar 23, 2021
Many heads fear the push to close gap is unsustainable
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Mar 23, 2021
Audit Scotland report: Scotland's education attainment gap 'remains wide'
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Mar 23, 2021
Scottish Government urgently needs to tackle attainment gap
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Mar 23, 2021
Fears for poor pupils as education attainment gap persists
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Mar 23, 2021
Scotland: Progress on closing the attainment gap ‘limited’
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Mar 23, 2021
Scotland: Sturgeon 'fails defining mission' of closing attainment gap between rich and poor, report finds
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Mar 23, 2021
Scotland: Poverty gap still fails children five years after SNP vow
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Mar 23, 2021
Coronavirus lockdown: Devastating audit shows how a year of restrictions has left poorer pupils struggling to cope
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Mar 22, 2021
Do primary schools close the attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils?
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Mar 22, 2021
Scotland: Progress in closing the attainment gap is ‘varied’
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Mar 22, 2021
Closing poverty-related attainment gap is making 'good progress', Scottish Government claims
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Mar 22, 2021
Magnus Linklater: We must learn from this year of lost schooling
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Mar 22, 2021
Pupil premium change could put more pressure on schools
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Mar 20, 2021
Black graduates get worse degrees and earn less than white peers, report says
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Mar 18, 2021
Coronavirus impact risks creating 'lost generation'
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Mar 18, 2021
Call for 'catch-up' fund to tackle disrupted learning
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Mar 18, 2021
Government laptop and internet fund fails to hit target
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Mar 17, 2021
School catch-up schemes 'not reaching' disadvantaged children, NAO warns
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Mar 17, 2021
Deprived families describe “impossible choices” over remote education
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Mar 17, 2021
How the NTP is solving the northern tutoring challenge
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Mar 17, 2021
Only 44% of catch-up tutoring helps poorest pupils
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Mar 17, 2021
Fewer than half of kids on flagship Covid tutoring scheme are the most needy
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Mar 17, 2021
Spending watchdog blasts ministers over long-term adverse effects of children having lessons online during Covid lockdown
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Mar 17, 2021
How did absenteeism during the COVID-19 pandemic affect student outcomes?
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Mar 16, 2021
Children in care homes: Education Committee launches call for written evidence
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Mar 15, 2021
GCSEs 2022: Urgent warning over Year 10s' lost learning
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Mar 15, 2021
Attainment gap between black students and their white peers 'too high', watchdog warns
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Mar 11, 2021
The secret of the state school that has more success than Eton
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Mar 11, 2021
Rethink of 6 week summer break 'legitimate', say heads
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Mar 11, 2021
Quick catch-up or recovery over time? A systems perspective on the pandemic (part 2)
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Mar 11, 2021
No detriment seems to have helped disadvantaged students attain their potential
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Mar 11, 2021
Why talk of catch-up tells pupils that they're damaged
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Mar 11, 2021
Spielman says deprived schools’ lower grades offset by leadership praise
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Mar 11, 2021
The £18m allotted to help young children catch up post-Covid will get us nowhere
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Mar 11, 2021
Quick catch-up or recovery over time? A systems perspective on the pandemic (part 1)
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Mar 10, 2021
Catch-up our 'biggest national challenge', says Johnson
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Mar 8, 2021
The schools pandemic recovery plan must ensure the attainment gap does not widen | Kevan Collins
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Mar 7, 2021
Our research on the ignored 16-to-19 attainment gap is disturbing
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Mar 6, 2021
What schools need to know about the NTP and tutoring
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Mar 5, 2021
Half of teachers 'lack tech needed to close Covid gap'
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Mar 4, 2021
Narrowing attainment gap stopped being ‘main focus’ of DfE in 2015, says former permanent secretary
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Mar 4, 2021
Laptops target to be met just as pupils return to class
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Mar 2, 2021
Why we can’t ignore the 16-19 attainment gap
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Mar 1, 2021
Covid catch-up tutoring scheme to reach 750,000 pupils
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Mar 1, 2021
Disadvantaged sixth form and college students are three whole A level grades behind their more affluent peers
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Mar 1, 2021
EPI's disadvantage gap study reveals poorer 16-19 year olds behind their peers - AoC responds
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Mar 1, 2021
How do we ensure disadvantaged kids don't lose out in England's new exam system? | Lee Elliot Major
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Mar 1, 2021
Poorer students ‘three A-level grades behind better-off peers’
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Mar 1, 2021
Measuring the disadvantage gap in 16-19 education
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Mar 1, 2021
A-levels: Poorer students 'three grades behind'
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Mar 1, 2021
Stark attainment gap in 16-19 education revealed
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Mar 1, 2021
The “disadvantage gap”: Poorer sixth-form students behind by three A-level grades
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Mar 1, 2021
Teachers deciding pupils' final exam grades is another blow for underdog children
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Feb 25, 2021
Doubts over summer schools as poor pupils fall months behind in lockdown
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Feb 25, 2021
Gavin Williamson hopes children will get time in school this summer (video)
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Feb 24, 2021
Lost learning study: Pupils in poorer-intake schools further behind in reading, and 4 other key findings
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Feb 24, 2021
SNP accused of failing Scotland’s young people as new figures reveal increase in poverty-related attainment gap
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Feb 23, 2021
Poorer primary pupils in England up to seven months behind due to Covid
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Feb 23, 2021
North and Midlands 'hardest hit by Covid learning loss'
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Feb 23, 2021
'Terrifying poverty' of children forced to write their homework on toilet paper
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Feb 22, 2021
Schools can sign up for Mail Force laptops from today
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Feb 22, 2021
Return to school must come soon – with additional support for poorer pupils a priority
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Feb 19, 2021
Making EdTech work for everyone
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Feb 19, 2021
How lockdown has hit learning
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Feb 19, 2021
Return to school must come soon – with additional support for poorer pupils a priority
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Feb 19, 2021
The hard lessons of home schooling
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Feb 19, 2021
Children in care homes: Education Committee to launch new inquiry
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Feb 18, 2021
EPI on education recovery
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Feb 18, 2021
Education catch up plans across all UK nations 'do not go far enough'
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Feb 18, 2021
Mixed report for Scotland's Covid catch-up work
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Feb 18, 2021
Ministers told disadvantaged are poorly targeted in the crisis of lost schooling in Scotland
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Feb 18, 2021
Covid catch-up cash 'very modest' and 'poorly targeted'
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Feb 18, 2021
Are low expectations holding back disadvantaged pupils in the north?
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Feb 17, 2021
Pupils in children’s homes less likely to attend best schools, warns Ofsted
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Feb 17, 2021
'Real change is needed': addressing the BAME postgrad attainment gap
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Feb 16, 2021
‘Lower attaining’ children’s learning threatened by performativity culture
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Feb 15, 2021
The Ebacc is not the answer to closing the poverty gap in our school system
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Feb 15, 2021
Catch-up: Longer school days backed by children's tsar
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Feb 15, 2021
One in six children may never catch up after Covid school closures
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Feb 14, 2021
Disadvantaged children and those with SEND lost most learning in first lockdown, research shows
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Feb 11, 2021
I'm wary of too many plans to help our children catch up - they just perpetuate guilt
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Feb 11, 2021
Children may have to take 'diagnostic tests' when they finally return to school
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Feb 11, 2021
NFER analysis of wellbeing of 15-year-olds reveals strength of personal relationships and a sense of belonging key
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Feb 10, 2021
Children may be asked to take 'diagnostic tests' to see how far they have fallen behind
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Feb 10, 2021
Children will need eight extra hours in classroom a week for two years, experts claim
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Feb 10, 2021
Poverty not ethnicity the reason for underperformance of working-class white students, says minister
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Feb 10, 2021
Middle-class UK teenagers more likely to binge drink and shoplift
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Feb 10, 2021
Catch-up tests and teacher resources to cost DfE £3.9m
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Feb 9, 2021
Gibb: ‘Challenge’ schools with low EBacc entries to address ‘unequal opportunities’
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Feb 9, 2021
9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence on the educational underachievement of white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Feb 9, 2021
Lost learning expert group scrapped by DfE before it’s even set up
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Feb 8, 2021
300,000 extra government laptops for remote learning have not yet reached schools
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Feb 8, 2021
GCSEs 2021: Lockdown 'hits exam year students hardest'
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Feb 8, 2021
GCSE pupils have suffered the most during Covid lockdown says report
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Feb 8, 2021
Covid hits exam-taking and poorer pupils worst, study finds
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Feb 8, 2021
Covid-19 has hit exam years hardest, finds study of 62,000 pupils
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Feb 8, 2021
GCSE pupils hit hardest by anxiety over Covid-19 lockdown
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Feb 8, 2021
Eleven-plus tutors are setting their own entrance exams to weed out weaker candidates
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Feb 7, 2021
University scheme provides tutors for over 300 students
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Feb 7, 2021
Children in London ‘at risk’ of falling behind due to the pandemic
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Feb 5, 2021
Schools need revolution to undo Covid damage | James Forsyth
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Feb 4, 2021
Closing the attainment gap: how disadvantaged pupils have been impacted by COVID-19
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Feb 4, 2021
Supporting disadvantaged students to overcome barriers to effective remote learning
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Feb 3, 2021
Lost learning: £1.5bn for Covid recovery? More like £30bn says IFS
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Feb 3, 2021
Charitable trust boosts Mail Force's laptops-for-children drive with £500k pledge
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Feb 3, 2021
‘Too slow’: More delays as lost learning expert group ‘refocused’
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Feb 2, 2021
Any ‘catch-up’ plans for education must focus on quality not quantity so our children and young people can thrive
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Feb 2, 2021
Fears of new pandemic 'digital divide' in Scots education
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Feb 2, 2021
Reset education to give our children a fighting chance
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Feb 2, 2021
Sadiq Khan plans taskforce to tackle digital divide
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Feb 2, 2021
Attainment gap fears: Thousands of pupils left behind
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Feb 2, 2021
Poorer children 'worst affected by long-term impact' of school closures
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Jan 31, 2021
BPS welcomes publication of report exploring the impact of school closures on the attainment gap
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Jan 29, 2021
Disadvantaged primary pupils seven months behind peers due to Covid, study suggests
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Jan 28, 2021
Two month reading and maths "Covid-19 gap"
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Jan 28, 2021
ASCL responds to EEF study on impact of Covid disruption
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Jan 28, 2021
EEF publishes new analysis on impact of Covid-19 on attainment gap
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Jan 28, 2021
Teachers have ‘no confidence’ in Covid catch-up plan
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Jan 28, 2021
EEF publishes interim assessment results on primary-age pupils in reading and maths
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Jan 28, 2021
Cost of Covid: Teachers' grim figures on learning loss
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Jan 28, 2021
Government must step up and give kids vital home learning support they need
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Jan 27, 2021
'Poorer pupils without materials will be falling behind their peers in lockdown'
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Jan 27, 2021
Schools in North hit by pre-Covid 'disadvantage chasm'
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Jan 27, 2021
Three quarters of disadvantaged white pupils say they feel 'left behind' at school during pandemic
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Jan 26, 2021
Boys 'more likely to struggle with online learning'
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Jan 26, 2021
Proof that the poorest are bearing the brunt of this crisis
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Jan 26, 2021
9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence on the importance of early years provision and early intervention
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Jan 26, 2021
Which age group is really losing the lockdown learning race?
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Jan 25, 2021
The impact of being long-term disadvantaged at KS2 and KS4
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Jan 25, 2021
Plea to give lockdown pupils the tools they need to thrive in lessons
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Jan 25, 2021
One in three locked-down families don't have enough computers for their children to study
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Jan 25, 2021
How the school laptops scandal let down teachers and pupils
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Jan 22, 2021
Designing a curriculum that can help to bridge the attainment gap
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Jan 21, 2021
ASCL comment on Sutton Trust’s ‘learning in lockdown’ report
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Jan 21, 2021
Sutton Trust on learning in lockdown
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Jan 21, 2021
Home schooling is widening attainment gap between rich and poor, finds report
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Jan 21, 2021
Only a quarter of working-class children doing five hours of schoolwork a day in lockdown
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Jan 21, 2021
Your pupils' remote learning class divide revealed
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Jan 21, 2021
Home schooling’s digital divide is having a devastating impact on poorer kids’ life chances
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Jan 21, 2021
Poorer pupils falling behind during lockdown
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Jan 21, 2021
Three quarters of schools struggling to support SEND children during Covid lockdown
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Jan 20, 2021
New research highlights ‘crisis’ in SEND and warns that SEN pupils could fall further behind peers during third national lockdown
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Jan 20, 2021
SENCOs reveal their fears over lockdown impact for SEN students
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Jan 20, 2021
BPS joins coalition calling for urgent inquiry into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children
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Jan 18, 2021
Scotland: Pupils in P1 and S1 among worst hit by Covid lockdown
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Jan 14, 2021
School closures: P1 and P2 pupils among worst affected
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Jan 14, 2021
Children in school for lessons ‘have advantage over those left at home’ in lockdown
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Jan 12, 2021
Curriculum is ‘stacked against the poorest in society’
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Dec 18, 2020
GCSEs: Warning 'fairer' exams will widen attainment gap
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Dec 18, 2020
GCSEs: Warning 'fairer' exams will widen attainment gap
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Dec 18, 2020
Disadvantaged children lost most days of learning due to Covid-19, new research shows
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Dec 16, 2020
Ofsted: Pupils 'pay long-term price' if schools close
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Dec 15, 2020
Remote learning is 'no substitute' for the classroom, Ofsted chief says
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Dec 15, 2020
Repeated school absences due to Covid-19 have chipped away at pupils' progress
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Dec 15, 2020
Richer students will benefit more from changes to GCSE and A-level exams, London head claims
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Dec 11, 2020
Catch-up education for disadvantaged pupils must not be a one-off intervention
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Dec 10, 2020
Disadvantage in early secondary school
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Dec 10, 2020
Pupils in England improving in maths but falling behind in science
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Dec 8, 2020
England's children decline 'significantly' in science tests
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Dec 8, 2020
Timss 2019: England's secondary science at record low
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Dec 8, 2020
Decline in science attainment among England's year 9 pupils
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Dec 8, 2020
The digital divide: Closing the achievement gap in the connected classroom
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Dec 4, 2020
The evidence is in – it’s time to close the digital divide
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Dec 4, 2020
2021 exam plans welcome - but don't forget less privileged pupils
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Dec 3, 2020
Pupils who had education hammered by coronavirus to receive more generous grades next year
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Dec 1, 2020
UN highlights two-thirds of school-age children are without internet access
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Dec 1, 2020
The Covid-19 supported study postcode lottery revealed
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Nov 30, 2020
A levels: Private schools open up gap despite U-turn
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Nov 26, 2020
GCSE results 2020: How did disadvantaged pupils and lower-attaining ethnic groups do?
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Nov 26, 2020
Exams 2020: ‘No evidence’ poorer pupils disadvantaged, concludes Ofqual
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Nov 26, 2020
Covid catch-up tutoring scheme 'needs to last 3 years'
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Nov 24, 2020
Tests reveal 'dramatic' GCSE learning loss
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Nov 24, 2020
Neglect of white working class children in the UK is a national disgrace
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Nov 23, 2020
Covid catch-up tutors 'too little too late' for schools
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Nov 18, 2020
The government should hang their heads in shame for their dereliction of duty to our nation’s children
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Nov 13, 2020
England: 'shocking' decline in primary pupils' attainment after lockdown
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Nov 11, 2020
Pupil attendance gap during Covid-19 could create ‘unforgivable legacy’
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Nov 10, 2020
Pupil attendance gap during Covid-19 could create ‘unforgivable legacy’
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Nov 10, 2020
Why closing attainment gap is about more than school
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Scotland
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Nov 10, 2020
Pupils forget how to spell after months out of school
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Nov 10, 2020
Closing the attainment gap: Education 'trapped in the iron cage of its own bureaucracy'
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Scotland
Nov 8, 2020
Children who started secondary school in September are 22 MONTHS behind on their writing
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Nov 8, 2020
NTP providers issued funding threat over speaking out amid conflict of interest and cap concerns
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Nov 6, 2020
National Tutoring Programme - Support for disadvantaged pupils
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Nov 5, 2020
Widened by the pandemic, how do we close the educational attainment gap for disadvantaged children?
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Nov 5, 2020
Concern at prospect of National Tutoring Programme caps
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Nov 4, 2020
PM: Catch-up 1:1 tutoring must continue after Covid
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Nov 4, 2020
DfE signals intent for National Tutoring Programme to continue beyond this year
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Nov 4, 2020
Survey results: Responding to the new
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Nov 3, 2020
9:30 a.m. - Education Committee will hear evidence on left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Nov 3, 2020
The launch of the National Tutoring Programme
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Nov 2, 2020
National Tutoring Programme launches in schools
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Nov 2, 2020
1,100+ schools and nurseries sought for EEF evaluations of eight projects aiming to close the disadvantage gap
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Nov 2, 2020
Increasing access: the launch of the NTP
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Nov 2, 2020
Covid-19: £76m National Tutoring Programme launches
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Nov 2, 2020
Pearson chosen to deliver high-quality tutoring to disadvantaged pupils through National Tutoring Programme
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Nov 2, 2020
Schools group among 32 Covid catch-up tutor providers
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Nov 2, 2020
Schools can book subsidised tuition for children worst hit by Covid-19 closures
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Nov 2, 2020
Coronaviurs: Poorest pupils can enrol for catch-up tuition
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Nov 2, 2020
Catch-up plan for pupils in England will fall far short, say headteachers
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Nov 2, 2020
Children in poorer areas of England missing more schooling – study
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Oct 30, 2020
Hidden Covid impact on poorest area schools
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Oct 30, 2020
Pupils in the poorest areas of the country are missing the most schooling
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Oct 30, 2020
Coronavirus: Exams ‘may have to be made shorter’
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Oct 29, 2020
Impact of place on white working-class pupils and the importance of early years provision examined
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Oct 28, 2020
What can generative learning look like?
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Oct 28, 2020
Covid-19 widening disadvantage gap among babies and toddlers, research warns
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Oct 28, 2020
Online tutoring helps disadvantaged pupils during lockdown, study finds
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Oct 21, 2020
Education Minister Nick Gibb rules out cancelling school holidays to help children catch up on learning
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Oct 20, 2020
Schools in Edinburgh's poorest areas had qualifications downgraded more than private schools
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Oct 20, 2020
The GCSE attainment of black Caribbean pupils is falling
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Oct 19, 2020
White working class boys are the most deprived in Britain
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Oct 17, 2020
Maths 'will suffer the widest Covid attainment gap'
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Maths
Oct 15, 2020
The pernicious doctrine of 'white privilege' holds back children of all colours
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Oct 15, 2020
Talk of ‘white privilege’ is divisive drivel | Iain Martin
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Oct 15, 2020
University Technology Colleges failing younger students
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Oct 14, 2020
White working-class boys will fall even further behind if they’re told to apologise for ‘white privilege’
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Oct 14, 2020
Why do over-16s at UTCs perform, but under-15s don't?
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Oct 14, 2020
UTC attainment gap for pre and post-16s revealed
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Oct 14, 2020
Don’t ask working-class boys to apologise for ‘white privilege’, experts warn
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Oct 14, 2020
Concept of 'white privilege' will make white working class children suffer even more in school
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Oct 13, 2020
White working-class pupils suffering due to 'status deficit', MPs told
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Oct 13, 2020
White working class boys will continue to be left behind because 'white privilege' suggests they are the problem
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Oct 13, 2020
'Elitist curriculum not serving white working classes'
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Oct 13, 2020
9:30 a.m. - The Education Committee will hear evidence in its inquiry into left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Oct 13, 2020
Books to support curriculum recovery, beyond words
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Oct 12, 2020
Act now to close the education gap — or our economy will pay the cost for years to come
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Oct 12, 2020
Education policy responses across the UK to the pandemic
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Oct 9, 2020
Teachers' worst Covid gap fears confirmed
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Oct 9, 2020
Education Endowment Foundation launches new research over widening attainment gap
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Oct 6, 2020
The Sutton Trust responds to the Prime Minister's speech at the Conservative Party Conference
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Oct 6, 2020
EEF commissions research on the impact of Covid-19 school and nursery closures
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Lockdown
Oct 5, 2020
Closing the Covid-19 gap: Where should interventions begin?
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Oct 2, 2020
National tutoring plan 'not enough' for Covid catch-up
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Coronavirus
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Oct 1, 2020
Private schools must do more for low-income families
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Scotland
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Sep 30, 2020
'Stark' pre-Covid online learning gap revealed
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Sep 29, 2020
White kids from poor backgrounds do worst at school
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Sep 28, 2020
Coronavirus UK: 'All pupils need government-funded catch up lessons'
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Sep 25, 2020
Supporting disadvantaged pupils in the Covid landscape
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Sep 25, 2020
'Class of 2020' campaign celebrates achievements of Black UK graduates
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Sep 25, 2020
Attainment gap widens due to COVID lockdown
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Sep 24, 2020
GCSE results 2020: How did within-school attainment gaps change?
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Disadvantaged pupils
Sep 24, 2020
NEU welcomes Keir Starmer's call for urgent efforts to close the education gap
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Sep 22, 2020
Starmer demands taskforce to close attainment gap
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Coronavirus
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Sep 22, 2020
GCSE results 2020: Did attainment gaps increase?
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Sep 18, 2020
GCSE grade data shows disadvantage gap shrank in 2020
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Disadvantaged pupils
Sep 18, 2020
Disadvantaged students narrow GCSE attainment gap in England
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Disadvantaged pupils
GCSEs
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Sep 18, 2020
GCSEs 2020: Girls pull further ahead than boys
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GCSEs
Sep 10, 2020
Heightened risks mean more should be done to prevent exclusions now
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Sep 8, 2020
Schools urged to close deaf pupil Covid learning gap
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Deaf
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Sep 4, 2020
Call for 'cast-iron guarantee' on closing the Covid gap
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Sep 3, 2020
Labour demand 'close the gap' scheme to help end widening education inequality
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Coronavirus
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Sep 2, 2020
17% of looked-after pupils leave with no qualifications
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Sep 2, 2020
We need an urgent inquiry into the role of the welfare state to tackle widening inequality in Britain
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Sep 2, 2020
Tests to be rolled out at schools to see how far children have fallen behind during lockdown
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Disadvantaged pupils
Sep 1, 2020
Government considering benchmark tests to reveal student ‘learning gaps’ amid calls to delay summer exams
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Disadvantaged pupils
Sep 1, 2020
Back to school: Diagnosis over assumption
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Disadvantaged pupils
Sep 1, 2020
Pupils three months behind on learning as new term starts
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Coronavirus
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Disadvantaged pupils
BAME
Sep 1, 2020
Disadvantaged children need 'long-term' catch-up support as learning gap grows
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Disadvantaged pupils
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Coronavirus
School closures
Sep 1, 2020
Gap between rich and poor pupils has almost doubled since lockdown
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Coronavirus
School closures
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Disadvantaged pupils
Sep 1, 2020
Lockdown's legacy on UK's poorest children: Richer pupils 46% further ahead than worse-off peers
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School closures
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Disadvantaged pupils
Sep 1, 2020
Learning gap between rich and poor students 'grows by 46%' after lockdown
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Coronavirus
School closures
Disadvantaged pupils
Sep 1, 2020
Report highlights challenges facing schools and pupils in September 2020
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Disadvantaged pupils
BAME
Sep 1, 2020
Boys fall further behind girls in studies during pandemic
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Sep 1, 2020
Coronavirus: Lockdown pupils are three months behind, say teachers
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Sep 1, 2020
Survey finds lockdown pupils 'three months behind' as Labour blasts schools chaos
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Sep 1, 2020
Pupils three months behind as new term starts, study claims
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Sep 1, 2020
Teachers estimate pupils three months behind curriculum, survey suggests
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Sep 1, 2020
Gap between rich and poor pupils in England 'grows by 46% in a year'
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Sep 1, 2020
Schools reopening: returning children ‘will be three months behind’
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Sep 1, 2020
Government’s ‘lost learning’ catchup plan not enough to close attainment gap say 71 per cent of teachers
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Aug 28, 2020
‘Levelling up’ the UK starts with schools
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Aug 28, 2020
Making the vulnerable visible: Narrowing the attainment gap after Covid-19
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Aug 27, 2020
Lockdown left poorer children behind. Now they face weekend classes to catch up
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Aug 27, 2020
Attainment gaps begin to widen and 6 other key findings from the EPI annual report
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Aug 27, 2020
Attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers widens in England
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Aug 26, 2020
The educational attainment gap has stopped closing but school policies alone cannot create the fair opportunities every child deserves
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Aug 26, 2020
Attainment gaps widens for first time in 12 years
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Aug 26, 2020
GCSE learning gap stands at 22.7 months for the most persistently disadvantaged
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Aug 26, 2020
Education in England: Annual report 2020
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Aug 26, 2020
Attainment gap between poor pupils and their peers in England is widening
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Primary
Aug 26, 2020
Infographic: EPI annual report 2020 – key findings
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Aug 26, 2020
Boris Johnson warned his ‘levelling up’ agenda at risk as drive to close gap between rich and poor pupils stalls
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Aug 26, 2020
Education gap between rich and poor pupils stopped narrowing before pandemic hit UK, study says
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Aug 26, 2020
Alarm bells continue to ring, but where is the coordinated action?
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Aug 26, 2020
Primary pupils' learning gap widens for first time since 2007
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Primary
Aug 26, 2020
Attainment gap between poor and wealthy pupils widening for first time in a decade
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Aug 26, 2020
Poor pupils are 18 months behind their classmates, report says
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Aug 26, 2020
Attainment gap 'will never close' if trends continue
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Aug 26, 2020
GCSE subjects with biggest disadvantage gap revealed
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Aug 26, 2020
Poor pupils stop catching up with rich ones for the first time in a decade
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Aug 26, 2020
EPI: Attainment gap has stopped closing for the first time in a decade
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Aug 26, 2020
Coronavirus will leave disadvantaged children even further behind
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Aug 26, 2020
Attainment gap 'stagnant' for early years, says new research
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Aug 26, 2020
Poor pupils are 18 months behind classmates when they take GCSEs
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Aug 26, 2020
Black Caribbean pupils GCSE results worsen dramatically as rich-poor education gap widens under Tories
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Aug 26, 2020
Boris Johnson urges parents to send children back to school
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Aug 24, 2020
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson says it is 'vitally important' children return to class
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Aug 24, 2020
Boris Johnson issues ‘vitally important’ information over pupils returning to school
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Aug 24, 2020
Boris Johnson warns parents that children’s ‘life chances’ are under threat if they don’t go back to school
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Aug 24, 2020
Prime Minister warns if children are not back at school next week it risks permanent damage
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Aug 24, 2020
Boris Johnson begs parents to send kids back to school as exam chaos 'puts plan at risk'
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Aug 23, 2020
September return to school offers a chance to level the playing field
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Aug 23, 2020
The schools scandal
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Aug 19, 2020
Tackling the attainment gap in GCSE English and maths
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Aug 19, 2020
Disadvantaged pupils are facing a perfect storm as they await their GCSE results — and it’s about more than coronavirus
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Aug 19, 2020
'Almost no progress' on closing GCSE gap since 2017
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Aug 19, 2020
Poor kids twice as likely to fail English and maths GCSE compared to rich pupils, experts warn
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Aug 19, 2020
Gaping chasm between rich and poor pupils passing GCSEs shows kids must go back to school
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Aug 18, 2020
The real problem is that England's education system rewards the rich | Frances Ryan
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Aug 18, 2020
Coronavirus: Poor pupils facing 'two-year catch up after lockdown'
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Aug 17, 2020
The education debacle: Educational inequality magnified as most UK children absent from school for six months
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Aug 12, 2020
DfE looking at ways to track pupil progress post-Covid
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Aug 11, 2020
Disadvantaged pupils set to lose out through ‘levelling up’
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Aug 7, 2020
Analysis: School funding allocations 2021-22
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Aug 7, 2020
EPI school funding analysis
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Aug 7, 2020
ASCL comment on EPI school funding analysis
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Aug 7, 2020
School funding plan 'benefits wealthier pupils most'
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Aug 7, 2020
Richer pupils get bigger boost from PM's 'levelling up'
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Aug 7, 2020
Four things we learned from the EPI’s analysis of 2021-22 school funding allocations
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Aug 7, 2020
'Levelling up' school funding policy favours wealthy pupils – study
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Aug 7, 2020
Tories hand schools with richer pupils more 'levelling up' cash
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Aug 7, 2020
Disadvantaged pupils to lose out under PM’s ‘levelling up’ crusade
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Aug 7, 2020
Selection in state schools needn’t be divisive | Iain Martin
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Aug 7, 2020
SQA exam system has largely maintained the status quo
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Aug 6, 2020
How teachers can help disadvantaged pupils to close the Covid gap
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Aug 4, 2020
Pupils' Covid catch-up fears 'could increase truancy'
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Aug 4, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: Vulnerable pupils failing to keep up in lockdown
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Jul 29, 2020
DfE 'must do more to tackle learning chasm'
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Jul 27, 2020
School staying open all summer holiday to help pupils who've fallen behind
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Jul 26, 2020
Anxious middle-classes look to private schools after coronavirus disruption
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Jul 26, 2020
Teachers must keep standing up for the left‑behind children
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Jul 26, 2020
Pandemic has broadened the attainment gap, say teachers
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Jul 26, 2020
Attainment gap widened in Covid lockdown, data shows
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Jul 24, 2020
Coronavirus will reduce earning potential of today’s children for next 50 years, Royal Society predicts
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Jul 24, 2020
Coronavirus school closures could hit pupils' earnings for the next fifty years, report says
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Jul 24, 2020
Coronavirus: Lost school time 'will hurt economy for 65 years' - study
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Jul 24, 2020
UK children could 'lose 3% of lifetime earnings' due to lockdown school closures
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Jul 24, 2020
The cost of lockdown: attainment gap widens by up to 52% for primary pupils
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Jul 24, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: Life-long effect on children as education disrupted
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Jul 24, 2020
Shutting schools in lockdown will leave children from poorest families a year behind, study finds
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Jul 23, 2020
How universities can do more for the wellbeing of black students – and to close the attainment gap
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Jul 22, 2020
Socio-economic status predicts UK boys’ development of essential thinking skills
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Jul 21, 2020
Why changing the summer holiday is a headache
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Jul 20, 2020
‘Badly targeted’ £80 per-pupil catch-up cash ‘unlikely’ to stop learning gap widening
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Jul 20, 2020
Funny voices, tricky bits and looking for clues: the latest way to teach spelling at home
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Jul 14, 2020
NFER report on learning during Covid-19
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Jul 14, 2020
Covid-19: Cost of missed learning has been greater for some year groups, new analysis warns
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Jul 14, 2020
Half of exam-year UK pupils given no school work since March, finds study
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Jul 14, 2020
Nearly half of exam students 'not given lockdown work'
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Jul 14, 2020
Almost all pupils were set work during partial closures, but half of year 11s and 13s missed out
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Jul 14, 2020
No one should be left behind in the Summer Economic Update
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Jul 7, 2020
Teacher confesses 'biggest fear' staff have about children coming back to school
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Jun 24, 2020
Covid-19 must not derail efforts to eliminate equality gaps
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Jun 22, 2020
Widening access to tutoring
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Jun 22, 2020
Children's Commissioner fears widening disadvantage gap due to COVID (video)
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Jun 18, 2020
Home and school-based learning must be poverty-proofed, says charity
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Jun 18, 2020
How can we close the SEND attainment gap?
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Jun 16, 2020
The geographic impact of the COVID-19 crisis will be diffuse and hard to manage
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Jun 15, 2020
The impact of school closures on the attainment of disadvantaged EAL pupils
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Jun 15, 2020
Continuity planning must start without delay
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Jun 15, 2020
MPs push to get primary pupils back to school warning poorest are being left behind
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Jun 15, 2020
Give lockdown-hit disadvantaged children free internet at home, education secretary told
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Jun 15, 2020
Lockdown a national disaster for attainment gap
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Gavin Williamson
Jun 14, 2020
Education 'as important as health and the economy'
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Jun 11, 2020
Exam cancellations will hit poor and BAME children hardest, experts warn MPs
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Jun 10, 2020
Poorer pupils taking exams face ‘tsunami’ of anxiety and inequality, MPs told
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Jun 10, 2020
Attainment gap 'not closing despite curriculum changes'
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Jun 10, 2020
Where is Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ plan for poor pupils hit by school closures?
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Jun 9, 2020
Risk to poorest children of missing school is greater than Covid-19, says Tony Blair
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Jun 9, 2020
Time to prove that education is still Scotland’s priority
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Jun 8, 2020
Suspending Scottish school inspections ‘will widen the attainment gap’
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Jun 8, 2020
Coronavirus: 10 years of closing the gap reversed by school closures
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Jun 5, 2020
Closing the gap: Lockdown's challenge for teachers
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Jun 5, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: ‘Ditch exams to narrow poverty gap’
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Jun 5, 2020
The Covid-19 divide: A national strategy must be launched
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Jun 4, 2020
Online tuition pilot launched as new EEF analysis finds school closures could undo recent progress on closing the attainment gap
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Jun 3, 2020
Lords questions government on education, child safety online and Covid-19
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Jun 3, 2020
Organise catch-up summer schools to help disadvantaged pupils, UK told
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Jun 3, 2020
Lockdown: Does more time in school improve outcomes?
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Jun 3, 2020
Summer schools, home-learning expectations and Ofsted – how experts think pupils can catch up
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Jun 3, 2020
The disadvantage gap has widened - here's how we fix it
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Jun 3, 2020
School closures: Rich-poor pupil gap gains 'wiped out'
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Jun 3, 2020
Shutdown of schools could leave poor kids 16 months behind better-off classmates, study finds
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Jun 3, 2020
Covid-19 may cost a decade’s progress on attainment gap
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Jun 3, 2020
Decade of progress in tackling pupil disadvantage 'wiped out'
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Jun 3, 2020
School closures are widening attainment gap for the disadvantaged, study says
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Jun 3, 2020
Coronavirus England: Teachers urged to run summer schools
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Jun 1, 2020
Summer school camps and extra cash on the cards to help disadvantaged kids catch up
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Jun 1, 2020
Summer schooling? Wales’ golden opportunity to do things differently
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May 30, 2020
The digital divide continues to disadvantage our students
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May 29, 2020
Covid-19 'widens achievement gap to a gulf'
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May 29, 2020
DfE lockdown help for poorer pupils 'has little impact'
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May 29, 2020
School day could get longer to let the 'Covid generation' catch up after lockdown
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May 28, 2020
We need a recovery plan now to stop lockdown from permanently damaging young people's futures
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May 28, 2020
Damage caused by Scotland's long school closure will be 'irreversible', experts warn
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Scotland
May 28, 2020
The 'trauma gap': Schools must not return to 'business as usual' post-lockdown
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May 27, 2020
Scottish pupils promised equal tech under Tory home school plan tackling Covid-19 'postcode lottery'
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May 26, 2020
Former Ofsted chief outlines why scrapping summer holidays will benefit pupils
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Michael Wilshaw
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May 26, 2020
Ex-Ofsted boss says school summer holidays should be scrapped
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Michael Wilshaw
May 25, 2020
Summer holidays should be cancelled to help vulnerable kids catch up, former Ofsted boss says
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May 25, 2020
State school pupils in Scotland ‘failed by lack of leadership’ during lockdown
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May 24, 2020
How coronavirus is exacerbating gaps in school provision
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May 19, 2020
Forget the hysteria – schools must open next month before kids fall even further behind
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May 18, 2020
Educational gaps are growing during lockdown
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May 18, 2020
Educational gaps are growing during lockdown
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May 18, 2020
Poorer pupils 'worst affected' by school closures, study warns, amid row over reopening
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May 18, 2020
Minister refuses to rule out penalising heads if they keep schools shut, as academies warn poor kids will lose out
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May 18, 2020
Coronavirus: Educational gaps widen during lockdown
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May 18, 2020
School heads could be penalised by ministers if they stay shut as academies warn poor kids will lose out
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May 18, 2020
MATs warn of 'irreparable' damage if schools don't open
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May 18, 2020
British kids’ futures are ‘hanging by a thread’ as coronavirus school closures could ‘damage generation beyond repair’
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May 18, 2020
Educational gaps are growing during lockdown
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May 18, 2020
Union tells headteachers to reopen schools next month as study shows lockdown will increase inequality
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May 18, 2020
Educational gap survey
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May 18, 2020
Damage to children's education caused by the coronavirus schools shutdown could last a generation
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May 18, 2020
Coronavirus: School closures will leave children from poorest families a week and a half behind classmates, research suggests
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May 18, 2020
Lockdown is worsening educational inequality, think tank warns
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May 18, 2020
Keeping schools closed in England will widen inequalities
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May 18, 2020
Coronavirus: Academies warn of irreparable harm if schools remain closed
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May 18, 2020
Militant teachers are shamefully betraying Britain’s poorest kids
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May 17, 2020
Former Tory and Labour Education Secretaries join forces to warn union opposition to re-opening schools
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Nicky Morgan
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May 17, 2020
Williamson: Delay school openings and pupils ‘miss out’
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Gavin Williamson
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May 16, 2020
Coronavirus: Attainment gap could widen by 75%, DfE official warns
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DfE
May 16, 2020
‘The pandemic has magnified inequalities tenfold’: How are British teachers coping in lockdown?
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May 15, 2020
Lockdown is making the gap between rich and poor kids even worse
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May 13, 2020
Coronavirus: Call to double early years and school funding in 'catch up plan'
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May 13, 2020
How to close the Covid-19 learning gap
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May 12, 2020
Can summer schools help disadvantaged pupils bounce back from Covid?
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May 12, 2020
Like the Open University, we now need an Open School for the whole country | Tim Brighouse and Bob Moon
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May 12, 2020
Summer schools could be seen as ‘punishment’ for disadvantaged pupils, heads warn
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May 12, 2020
Can summer schools close a coronavirus attainment gap?
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May 12, 2020
North-south divide in maths and English results of excluded pupils
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May 11, 2020
The English Baccalaureate is a social justice problem
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May 9, 2020
Charities in talks with ministers over tuition pilot
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May 8, 2020
‘Catch up plan’ needed to stop disadvantaged pupils falling further behind, says EPI
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May 7, 2020
School closures ‘open up chasm’ between pupils
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May 7, 2020
Disadvantaged pupils ‘hit hardest’ by coronavirus school closures
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May 7, 2020
Extra teaching needed to plug disadvantage 'chasm'
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May 7, 2020
Three ways government must help schools to close the gap
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May 6, 2020
Preventing the disadvantage gap from increasing during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
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May 6, 2020
EPI on disadvantaged pupils
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May 6, 2020
ASCL responds to EPI school catch-up plan
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May 6, 2020
The home schooling quagmire: it’s about more than laptops
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May 5, 2020
Could Covid-19 help level the attainment playing field?
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May 5, 2020
We cannot let Covid-19 derail progress on closing the BAME attainment gap
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May 3, 2020
Covid-19 does discriminate – so we should tackle its impact on BAME students
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May 3, 2020
Nuffield Early Language Intervention could help close the ‘disadvantage gap’
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May 1, 2020
Nuffield Early Language Intervention boosts young children’s language skills by three months
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May 1, 2020
Short catch-ups could boost early years post-shutdown
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May 1, 2020
GCSE attainment gap 'inevitable' this year, say heads
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Apr 30, 2020
New evaluation reports: catch-up programme boosts young children’s language skills by +3 months
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Apr 30, 2020
Coronavirus in Scotland: recruit tutors for disadvantaged, say education experts
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Apr 30, 2020
Starmer warns ministers: Poorer pupils suffering most from school closures
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Apr 29, 2020
Britain’s poorest children should get £700 each for one-on-one tuition while schools are out
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Apr 29, 2020
Education gap for children in need: Calls for Pupil Premium Plus to expand
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Apr 29, 2020
Covid-19: Disadvantaged face 6-month 'learning loss'
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Apr 29, 2020
The brutal truth about education in Scotland | Kenny Farquharson
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Apr 29, 2020
Lazy children will be among the biggest losers of lockdown, Ofsted chief warns
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Apr 27, 2020
Attainment gap between deprived pupils and peers set to widen, Ofsted boss warns
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Apr 27, 2020
Poorest children 'losing an education' due to coronavirus as gap widens further
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Apr 27, 2020
The poorest pupils will miss out most due to the coronavirus shutdown
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Apr 27, 2020
GCSE attainment gap for children who have ever needed a social worker
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Apr 27, 2020
Schools shutdown likely to widen attainment gap, says Ofsted chief
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Apr 27, 2020
Return to school in children's interests - Ofsted
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Apr 27, 2020
Coronavirus: Lockdown home-schooling will widen education gaps, says Ofsted chief
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Apr 27, 2020
Ministers must go further and faster on online access
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Apr 27, 2020
Lockdown: Call to stop GCSE gap for vulnerable widening
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Apr 27, 2020
'Digital poverty' in schools where few have laptops
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Apr 24, 2020
The unique child in a unique time
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Apr 23, 2020
The attainment gap was yawning long before Covid-19
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Apr 23, 2020
Coronavirus: '4% of students should be in school daily'
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Apr 22, 2020
MPs probe effect of Covid-19 pandemic on disadvantaged white children
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Apr 20, 2020
Use attainment gap funding to support home learning
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Apr 20, 2020
Scotland: Highers success exposes gulf between rich and poor areas
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Apr 20, 2020
Left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
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Apr 17, 2020
Feedback during Covid-19: will it widen the gap?
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Apr 16, 2020
Coronavirus: 'Another crisis awaits us in September'
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Apr 14, 2020
Coronavirus: 'Help poor pupils with a catch-up premium'
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Apr 14, 2020
The private schools working to narrow the underprivileged attainment gap this spring
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Apr 14, 2020
Home schooling and the educational divide
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Apr 3, 2020
Mind the gap: will home learning reinforce inequality and what can we do about it?
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Apr 2, 2020
Coronavirus crisis will widen the attainment gap
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Apr 1, 2020
Coronavirus: Fears lockdown will lead to a widening inequality gap
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Mar 27, 2020
School closures - the disadvantage gap may widen, but there are practical steps we can take to minimise it
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Mar 23, 2020
Fears that cancelling exams will hit BAME and poor pupils worst
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Mar 19, 2020
School closures to disproportionately affect the learning and development of disadvantaged students, says think tank
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Mar 19, 2020
School closures risk widening educational disparities
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Mar 19, 2020
School closures and disadvantaged students
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Mar 19, 2020
Will doubling preschool hours improve outcomes?
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Mar 12, 2020
Tackling the BAME attainment at the Claude Littner Business School
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Mar 10, 2020
Scotland: Our education system still fails poor children | Alex Massie
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Mar 10, 2020
What can 63 EEF trials tell us about closing the attainment gap for young people with social care experience?
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Feb 27, 2020
John Swinney: Support for most vulnerable pupils has 'not been good enough'
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Feb 26, 2020
‘Slight’ drop in attainment across the board
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Feb 26, 2020
Budget cuts linked to drop in attainment for children getting additional support
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Feb 26, 2020
John Swinney denies attainment is falling
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Feb 25, 2020
NFER comments on health equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 years on
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Feb 25, 2020
Attainment for Scotland's school leavers has worsened
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Feb 25, 2020
Austerity 'highly likely' to have caused 'shocking' damage to nation's health
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Feb 25, 2020
Swinney talks up impact of Attainment Challenge
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Feb 24, 2020
Scotland: Swinney praises attainment scheme despite gap widening
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Feb 24, 2020
Scotland: Third in Edinburgh think social class was a factor in school
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Feb 24, 2020
Girls just want to learn languages?
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Feb 18, 2020
Have GCSE reforms in England led to a widening of the achievement gap?
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Feb 18, 2020
The plight of white working class boys is a 'taboo subject' in Westminster
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Feb 13, 2020
Progressive education is leading Scotland into crisis
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Feb 12, 2020
It's time to give white, working class boys a fair shot in life
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Feb 12, 2020
Government’s ‘obsession’ with phonics is driven by need to help working-class white boys
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Feb 12, 2020
Girls consistently outperform boys in reading skills – but could this be changing?
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Feb 12, 2020
The Guardian view on new GCSEs: bad news for disadvantaged pupils
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Feb 11, 2020
Muslim school chief vows to help white working-class boys
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Feb 11, 2020
Why superficial compliance with research is dangerous
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Feb 10, 2020
Attainment gap widens between disadvantaged pupils and their peers
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Feb 6, 2020
GCSE gap between rich and poor students widens
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Feb 6, 2020
England's GCSE gender gap lasts 30 years
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Feb 6, 2020
Gove's GCSEs widened disadvantage gap, data suggests
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Feb 6, 2020
Rayner: ‘Tories must address damage done by cuts’
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Feb 4, 2020
Scotland latest: SNP are 'failing' kids as indyref2 push ramps up
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Jan 31, 2020
Summer-born children more likely to struggle with basic skills, figures suggest
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Jan 31, 2020
Sturgeon accused of education ‘spin and denial’
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Jan 30, 2020
Nicola Sturgeon fury: First Minister accused of 'masking SNP failures' in explosive row
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Jan 30, 2020
First Minister's Questions: Nicola Sturgeon accused of 'failing' Scottish pupils
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Jan 30, 2020
Pupil background 'levels out North-South divide'
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Jan 27, 2020
Gap between rich and poor university students ‘remains stark’ as little evidence shows interventions work
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Jan 23, 2020
Reformed BTECs still produce higher grades than A-levels
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Jan 17, 2020
Reformed BTECs still produce higher grades than A-levels
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Jan 17, 2020
Drive to close the gap could hit child poverty targets
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Jan 15, 2020
The poverty gaps persist
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Jan 15, 2020
Poor white boys are underdogs of the education system
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Dec 30, 2019
Big variations in literacy and numeracy attainment
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Scotland
Dec 11, 2019
Scrapped school surveys won't be reinstated despite concerns about education data
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Scotland
Dec 10, 2019
4 ways we closed the GCSE gender gap
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Dec 8, 2019
Tory election manifesto pledges could increase attainment gap for poorer pupils, report suggests
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Dec 6, 2019
EPI analysis: How the parties’ education plans could affect pupil attainment
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Dec 6, 2019
Off-rolling 'hides true extent of pupil attainment gap' in schools
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Dec 5, 2019
Who’s Left 2019, part one: The disadvantage gap is bigger than we thought
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Dec 5, 2019
Who’s Left 2019, part two: How do you lose 6,700 pupils?
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Dec 5, 2019
Who’s Left 2019, part three: The government needs to take action
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Dec 5, 2019
The effect of GCSE reforms: How have they affected long-term disadvantaged pupils?
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Dec 5, 2019
The effect of GCSE reforms: Have they widened the disadvantage gap?
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Dec 5, 2019
Sutton Trust on GCSE reforms
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Dec 5, 2019
The effect of GCSE reforms: Have they widened the disadvantage gap?
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Dec 5, 2019
GCSE reforms have led to slight widening of attainment gap, but overall impact is small
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Dec 5, 2019
GCSE changes introduced by Tories widen attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and peers, research suggests
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Dec 5, 2019
Michael Gove's tougher GCSEs 'harm social mobility'
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Dec 5, 2019
Disadvantage gap widens when off-rolled pupils counted
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Dec 5, 2019
New GCSEs 'widen gap between rich and poor'
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Dec 5, 2019
Warnings over impact of Gove reforms and off-rolling on attainment gap
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Dec 5, 2019
'Off-rolling' hides true extent of disadvantage gap in schools – study
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Dec 5, 2019
Pisa: No sign of attainment gap cash 'making an impact'
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Scotland
Dec 3, 2019
Nicola Sturgeon urged to apologise over analysis showing attainment gap widening in dozens of schools
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Dec 1, 2019
What do the latest Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results show?
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Nov 29, 2019
Huge challenge of closing attainment gap is laid bare
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Nov 20, 2019
No change in direction for education, vows Swinney
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Nov 18, 2019
Back in class: Parents return to school to help job prospects and young pupils
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Scotland
Nov 18, 2019
Swinney hits out at ‘culture of negativity’
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Nov 15, 2019
Scotland: Academics criticise professor over ‘dubious research’ in his Curriculum for Excellence study
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Nov 14, 2019
Are private-school pupils cleverer? No, just richer
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Nov 11, 2019
Pupil progress 'reflects social advantage, not school'
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Nov 11, 2019
PM 'not targeting funding where schools need it most'
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Nov 11, 2019
First minister grilled over pupils' subject choices
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Nov 7, 2019
Scotland: Ministers admit curriculum failures as grade slump hits disadvantaged
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Nov 7, 2019
Attainment gap between rich and poor 'has widened in Scotland's schools under new curriculum'
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Nov 4, 2019
Narrowing attainment gaps through addressing assessment issues
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Nov 1, 2019
Click, connect... learn?
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Nov 1, 2019
Scottish head teachers spend £132m to help close attainment gap
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Nov 1, 2019
Black students more likely to engage in studies - but still attain lower degrees, study finds
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Oct 31, 2019
Headteachers spend £132m trying to close attainment gap
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Oct 31, 2019
Disadvantage gap 'could close if schools work together'
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Oct 18, 2019
More than a quarter of kids are already falling behind by the age of five, official figures show
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Oct 17, 2019
New EEF research points way to closing disadvantage gap by 38% in primary schools
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Oct 17, 2019
More than one in four children falling behind by age five, figures show
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Oct 17, 2019
Lowest attaining early years pupils fall further behind as progress stalls
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Early years
Oct 17, 2019
Proportion of pupils reaching top A-level grades falls further
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Oct 17, 2019
Half of GCSE attainment gap 'evident by Year 3'
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Oct 14, 2019
Attainment gap: Concern at private tuition spike
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Oct 9, 2019
Oracy: children’s skills are skewed by deprivation and privilege. How can schools bridge the gap?
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Oct 3, 2019
Schools should adjust test scores by age to tackle disadvantage facing summer-born children, experts say
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Oct 3, 2019
How to close the gap between learners?
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Sep 27, 2019
Small-group reading helps reduce disadvantage gap
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Sep 27, 2019
Keep calm and carry on, say government advisers
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Sep 24, 2019
Schools' attainment gap could take 15 years to be reduced warn experts
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Scotland
Sep 23, 2019
Some thoughts on ‘The children leaving school with nothing’
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Sep 23, 2019
Explained: The dip in 18-year-olds achieving level 2
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Sep 23, 2019
White Elephant #3: Putting the burden of closing attainment gaps off BME staff and students
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Sep 22, 2019
One in five children 'leaving education without basic qualifications'
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Sep 20, 2019
AoC responds to Children's Commissioner research into children leaving education without basic qualifications
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Sep 20, 2019
Rise in 18-year-olds without basic qualifications
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Sep 20, 2019
'Shameful rise': 18% of children now leave school as low achievers
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Sep 20, 2019
Longfield demands review as 1 in 5 leave school without good GCSEs
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Sep 20, 2019
Nearly 100,000 children leave education without basic qualifications amid shameful rise, children’s commissioner says
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Sep 19, 2019
Gap in academic skills of girls and boys widens, show Sats
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Sep 5, 2019
Cash to close attainment gap ‘until at least 2022’
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Sep 3, 2019
Closing the GCSE attainment gap can’t be up to schools alone | Letters
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Aug 22, 2019
GCSE results highlight persistent regional differences
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Aug 22, 2019
Improved GCSE results disguise a fail for Theresa May
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Aug 22, 2019
Poor pupils nearly twice as likely not to pass maths GCSE as richer peers, analysis reveals
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Aug 22, 2019
GCSE analysis reveals stark attainment gap between rich and poor students
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Aug 21, 2019
GCSEs: Disadvantaged pupils are getting left behind
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Aug 21, 2019
Poor pupils nearly twice as likely not to pass maths GCSE as richer peers, analysis finds
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Aug 21, 2019
Teenagers from poorest areas ‘twice as likely to score low GCSE grades’
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Aug 21, 2019
Poorer pupils twice as likely to fail key GCSEs
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Aug 21, 2019
Disadvantaged teenagers more likely to score low GCSE grades
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Aug 21, 2019
Poorer pupils lag behind wealthier peers in all EBacc subjects
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Aug 21, 2019
562 years to close the attainment gap
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Aug 13, 2019
US researchers urge caution on 'flipped learning'
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Aug 9, 2019
Row over Scottish ministers’ education gap claims
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Aug 9, 2019
The intervention programme that claims to lessen the achievement gap
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Aug 7, 2019
Schools with most disadvantaged pupils could miss out under Boris Johnson's funding pledge, analysis suggests
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Aug 1, 2019
Schools North East calls for urgent government review into the effects of high impact disadvantage on student attainment
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Aug 1, 2019
Labour hits out at Tory education policies as GCSE gap between rich and poor pupils widens
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Secondary
Jul 30, 2019
EPI Annual Report on the state of education - AoC's statement
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Jul 30, 2019
NASUWT comments on the Education Policy Institute's Education in England: Annual Report 2019
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Jul 30, 2019
Poorer students in England falling behind in secondary schools, finds report
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Jul 30, 2019
Schools can no longer close the gap for disadvantaged pupils
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Jul 30, 2019
EPI Annual Report 2019: The education disadvantage gap in your area
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Jul 30, 2019
What are the causes of the education disadvantage gap? (Infographic)
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Jul 30, 2019
EPI Annual Report 2019 – Key findings (Infographic)
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Jul 30, 2019
Education in England: Annual Report 2019
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Jul 30, 2019
Our students can't wait half a millennia for fairness
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Jul 30, 2019
‘Wake-up call’ for Boris Johnson on GCSE inequality
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Jul 30, 2019
'Segregation' in post-16 education continues to rise
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Jul 30, 2019
Education in England 2019: EPI and the FEA report
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Jul 30, 2019
ASCL response to EPI report on disadvantage gap
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Jul 30, 2019
Voice comments on EPI’s Annual Report and calls for increased funding
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Jul 30, 2019
EPI on the education disadvantage gap
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Jul 30, 2019
Poorer students '18 months behind' classmates as progress in closing GCSE attainment gap stalls
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Jul 30, 2019
‘Wake-up call’ for Government as report finds poor students ‘two years behind wealthy classmates’
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Jul 30, 2019
Disadvantaged pupils 'stuck 18 months behind'
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Jul 30, 2019
Progress on closing the disadvantage gap in early years at a standstill
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Jul 30, 2019
Poor pupils lag 18 months behind peers, and 5 other key findings from the EPI’s annual report
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Jul 30, 2019
Wake-up call' for Government as report shows GCSE attainment gap widening
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Jul 30, 2019
Teenagers from a poor background are falling 18 months behind their wealthier peers in GCSE studies
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Jul 30, 2019
Poorer students ‘falling behind in secondary schools’
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Jul 30, 2019
Attainment gap widens for disadvantaged GCSE pupils, study finds
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Jul 30, 2019
New social mobility figures ‘a wake up call’ for new PM
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Jul 30, 2019
Education disadvantage gap has stopped closing - sector response
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Jul 30, 2019
Poor pupils fall behind better-off classmates at GCSE level
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Jul 30, 2019
Chinese students are two years ahead of their white British peers by age 16, report finds
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Jul 30, 2019
Disadvantaged pupils' attainment 18 months behind peers
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Jul 29, 2019
New school curriculum 'could widen achievement gap' in Wales
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Jul 17, 2019
Can a programme that works also widen the attainment gap?
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Jul 12, 2019
Targeted writing exercises help reduce educational attainment gap
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Jul 9, 2019
Fifteen years of school reforms have not closed the gap, researchers say
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Jul 3, 2019
The attainment gap for looked-after children
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Jun 18, 2019
The importance of early language development
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Jun 17, 2019
Poorer pupils in coastal areas end up 3 grades behind at GCSE
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Jun 14, 2019
Poor pupils do worst in isolated rural schools
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Jun 14, 2019
School reforms have not bridged gaps in pupils’ attainment levels
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Jun 11, 2019
Gaps in pupil attainment still exist, despite government overhaul of secondary education
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Jun 11, 2019
Schools account for ‘relatively small’ variance in pupils’ grades, and 4 more key findings
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Jun 11, 2019
Pupils ‘suffering’ as different courses are taught in same class
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Jun 8, 2019
Teachers asked how to help poorer pupils achieve
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Jun 4, 2019
Poverty funding helping to narrow attainment gap in schools, Scottish heads say
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May 30, 2019
Poverty funding helps shrink attainment gap, heads say
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May 30, 2019
Quotas won't help minority students at university says Tory hoping to be first black London mayor
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May 13, 2019
In the news 3 May 2019
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May 3, 2019
Advance HE welcomes the new report, ‘Black, Asian and minority ethnic student attainment at UK universities
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May 2, 2019
Universities told to close race ‘degree gap’
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May 2, 2019
EU students, over-education, BME attainment, Cambridge and slavery (podcast)
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May 2, 2019
Universities urged to close 'degree gap' between black and white students
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May 2, 2019
As a black student, I know why our grades are worse: universities don’t listen to us | Adesewa Esther Adebisi
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May 2, 2019
Universities told to 'decolonise' their teaching as black and Asian students are put off
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May 2, 2019
Universities acting to close BAME student attainment gap
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May 2, 2019
Lack of role models ‘key cause’ of ethnic minority attainment gap
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May 2, 2019
The sector is failing BME students unless closing the attainment gap is made a priority
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May 2, 2019
'Long way to go' to eliminate BAME attainment gap at universities
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May 2, 2019
Universities told to tackle race attainment gap
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May 2, 2019
Universities must 'decolonise' the curriculum to boost black students' grades, vice-Chancellors say
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May 2, 2019
Universities told to publish ‘ethnic gap’
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May 2, 2019
ASCL comment on Social Mobility Commission report
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Apr 30, 2019
Gap between rich and poor pupils ‘stagnating’
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Apr 30, 2019
Scotland: Concerns over subject choices and ‘new type of attainment gap’
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Apr 23, 2019
'New attainment gap' opening up between Scotland's state and private schools thanks to subject choice
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Apr 23, 2019
The state of education: Child poverty
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Apr 14, 2019
Attainment falls and absence rises among looked-after pupils
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Apr 11, 2019
Rural schools struggle to break poverty-attainment link
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Apr 10, 2019
Scotland: Charging for revision 'risks widening the attainment gap'
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Apr 10, 2019
Seaside towns lay bare dysfunctional UK economy
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Apr 9, 2019
Rural schools struggle to break poverty-attainment link
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Apr 5, 2019
Breaking the link? Attainment, poverty and rural schools
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Apr 5, 2019
Is the ‘attainment gap’ fit for purpose?
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Apr 2, 2019
Map plots attainment gaps of pro-Brexit areas
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Apr 1, 2019
Universities must do more for black students, warns watchdog
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Mar 29, 2019
Why school attendance really matters for social mobility
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Mar 21, 2019
Scotland: Poor pupils improve exam results, but gap with the richest widens
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Mar 20, 2019
Scottish school league tables 2019: results expose the rich-poor divide
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Mar 20, 2019
Scotland: Will the Pupil Equity Fund close the attainment gap?
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Mar 18, 2019
How mindfulness and more PE are being taught in school to help narrow the attainment gap in Scotland
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Mar 17, 2019
Poorer pupils ‘catch up’ by end of primary, but fall behind again at GCSE
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Mar 15, 2019
Scotland: Council told to improve impact of cash for closing attainment gap
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Mar 12, 2019
Close the regional attainment gap – and kick start social mobility in this country
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Mar 6, 2019
Gap grows between rich and poor pupils attending good schools
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Mar 1, 2019
Educational psychologists ‘boost children's mental health’
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Feb 26, 2019
Scotland: More school leavers in work, education and training
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Feb 26, 2019
Wealth gap at Scotland's universities widens with little progress in closing gulf in school attainment
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Feb 26, 2019
Classroom reforms won't be enough to help working class white boys close the gap
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Feb 25, 2019
Disadvantaged boys benefit most from early school years
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Feb 21, 2019
Social mobility
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Feb 21, 2019
Urgent need to tackle social mobility 'coldspots', say MPs
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Feb 21, 2019
Disadvantaged boys benefit most from earlier schooling, say researchers
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Feb 21, 2019
Gap likely to grow in social mobility 'coldspots'
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Feb 21, 2019
ASCL response to APPG report on social mobility
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Feb 21, 2019
Pupil premium reform and 9 other ways to close the gap
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Feb 21, 2019
Early schooling helps narrow boys’ disadvantage gap
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Feb 21, 2019
Social mobility ‘coldspots’ likely to fall back further
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Feb 21, 2019
Tackling the regional attainment gap
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Feb 21, 2019
Social mobility cold spots will get worse unless action is taken to close attainment gap, MPs warn
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Feb 21, 2019
Pay teachers more at deprived schools
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Feb 21, 2019
Boys only suffer from late school start if they’re poor
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Feb 21, 2019
DfE to pay for free learning apps for disadvantaged children
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Feb 20, 2019
DfE to pay for early learning apps for poor families
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Feb 20, 2019
Disadvantaged families to benefit from free early learning apps
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Feb 20, 2019
Parents should install educational apps on their children's iPads and smartphones
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Feb 20, 2019
Parents should use phone and tablet apps with pre-school children to close literacy gap, education secretary says
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Feb 20, 2019
Poorer families to get text messages in trial to support early learning
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Feb 20, 2019
Hundreds of schools sought for new home learning trials
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Feb 20, 2019
Children get free access to apps that aid learning
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Feb 20, 2019
Scotland: Inspectorate ‘delighted’ with council closing attainment gap
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Feb 19, 2019
Scotland: Council credited for progress on narrowing attainment gap in schools
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Feb 19, 2019
Closing the gap
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Feb 15, 2019
SNP's blatant social engineering undermines Scotland's best universities
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Feb 14, 2019
Parenting can trump background
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Feb 14, 2019
Robert Halfon MP: Government must move away from wrong-headed policies that increase disadvantage in early years education
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Feb 8, 2019
EPI response to Select Committee report on disadvantage in the early years
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Feb 7, 2019
Extra teachers to tackle gap in attainment is ‘smoke and mirrors’
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Feb 6, 2019
Scotland: Tilda Swinton sought government cash for experimental school
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Feb 4, 2019
Scotland: Education is failing the most vulnerable children
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Feb 1, 2019
Universities must do more to tackle ethnic disparity
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Feb 1, 2019
Missing the detail on ethnicity
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Feb 1, 2019
Close grade gap for black students or face fines, ministers warn universities as audit reveals racial disparity
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Feb 1, 2019
New measures to tackle university disparity announced
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Feb 1, 2019
Secondary school performance tables 2018: Disadvantage gap widens in English and maths
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Jan 30, 2019
Hundreds of Scottish teachers face uncertainty over contracts
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Jan 29, 2019
Tougher GCSEs widen gap between poorer and better-off pupils
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Jan 24, 2019
Disadvantage gap widens and 6 other facts from today's GCSE statistics
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Jan 24, 2019
Secondary tables - poor pupils behind for next 70 years
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Jan 24, 2019
'Impossible' to measure if SNP government is closing attainment gap in Scottish schools, experts warn
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Jan 23, 2019
Closing the gap? Scotland lacks the data to know
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Jan 23, 2019
Scotland: Over £50m for disadvantaged pupils goes unspent
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Jan 18, 2019
Ireland: Disadvantaged pupils fall behind after Leaving Cert exam reforms
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Jan 17, 2019
DfE has ‘long way to go’ to deliver for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils, minister admits
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Jan 9, 2019
Four challenges facing school leaders working in disadvantaged areas
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Jan 7, 2019
Gap between poor five-year-olds and their better-off peers has grown
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Dec 19, 2018
Children's early cognitive skills should be prioritised to close the disadvantage gap
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Dec 19, 2018
Gap widens for poor 5-year-olds in half of England
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Dec 18, 2018
Gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers narrows
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Dec 13, 2018
Poorer primary school students narrow Sats test gap
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Dec 13, 2018
Poor primary-school pupils to lag richer classmates until 2070
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Primary
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Dec 13, 2018
Primary school tables: Poor pupils won't catch up for 50 years
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Dec 13, 2018
School attainment gap between rich and poor could take decades to close in Scotland
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Dec 12, 2018
Scotland: Children from deprived areas struggling to meet literacy and numeracy targets
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Dec 12, 2018
SNP making little headway closing attainment gap between rich and poor pupils, official figures suggest
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Dec 11, 2018
Scotland: Three in every ten pupils not at required literacy level
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Dec 11, 2018
Scotland: Poor pupils lagging behind richer classmates in literacy and numeracy
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Dec 11, 2018
New DfE research shows 'lasting negative impact' on attainment of children in need
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Dec 10, 2018
Progress slows in closing university opportunity gap
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Dec 6, 2018
Why do dyslexic students do worse at university? | Christopher Byrne
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Dec 6, 2018
Early-intervention literacy programme for struggling children closes GCSE attainment gap
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Dec 5, 2018
Exploring solutions to ethnicity attainment gaps – one university's experience
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Dec 5, 2018
Scots tax cut to match Philip Hammond pledge would cost £1bn
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Nov 30, 2018
EYFS data highlights growing gap between disadvantaged children and their peers
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Nov 29, 2018
Gap widens for poorer pupils at age 5
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Nov 29, 2018
In the new edition of CYP Now: Lifelong Links; reducing care; and attainment gap
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Nov 28, 2018
How to bridge Scotland’s attainment gap | Dr Geetha Marcus
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Nov 28, 2018
Story-telling helps boys close ‘literacy gap’ with girls
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Nov 27, 2018
Attainment gap for summer-born pupils 'persists at age 11'
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Primary schools
Nov 21, 2018
Attainment gap for summer-born pupils 'persists at age 11'
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Nov 21, 2018
Summer-borns still struggle in year 6, and 3 other findings from primary schools test results analysis
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Nov 21, 2018
Summer-born pupils disadvantaged throughout primary school – study
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Nov 21, 2018
Education experts call for a 'take your son into university day'
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Nov 19, 2018
Poor reforms have damaged Scottish education
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Nov 18, 2018
Scotland: Holyrood committee launches inquiry into national testing in schools
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Nov 15, 2018
Are LGBT pupils at a disadvantage?
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Nov 14, 2018
BME attainment: why universities must do more than 'mind the gap'
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Nov 13, 2018
If spending on poor pupils seems lavish, it’s a drop in the bucket compared with cuts | Fiona Millar
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Nov 13, 2018
School funding ‘more targeted towards poor pupils'
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Nov 1, 2018
What we have learned from our RCT
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Nov 1, 2018
Addressing the BME attainment gap in universities
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Oct 29, 2018
Scotland: John Swinney to make statement on P1 testing
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Oct 25, 2018
Poorest students almost three years behind wealthy peers in UK, study finds
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Oct 24, 2018
Progress stalls on closing the inequality gap
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Oct 19, 2018
Scottish Greens urge SNP to ‘copy our homework’ on school policy
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Oct 17, 2018
The Scottish Greens issue government with 'needs improvement' education report card
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Oct 17, 2018
DfE announces investment in North East
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Oct 8, 2018
£24m boost for North East schools
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Oct 8, 2018
Why I no longer believe in social mobility
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Oct 8, 2018
Ambition School Leadership & Institute for Teaching comments on education secretary’s £24million for the north east announcement
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Oct 8, 2018
Children and Families Minister's NAHT early years speech
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Nadhim Zahawi
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Oct 5, 2018
We must hold our nerve over the pupil premium
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Oct 4, 2018
In the news: 21 September
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Sep 21, 2018
UCU superannuation working group endorses JEP report on USS pension scheme
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Sep 21, 2018
Seven ways to improve science teaching, according to the EEF
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Sep 21, 2018
Greater commitments needed from universities to advance race equality, says report
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Sep 18, 2018
The pupil premium is not working
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researchED
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Sep 18, 2018
Scotland: ‘Collaboration is key to closing the attainment gap’
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Sep 17, 2018
Learning tool helps close gap in Scotland’s maths attainment
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Sep 12, 2018
International education study highlights UK strength
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Sep 11, 2018
Nicola Sturgeon: ‘P1 tests will close attainment gap in schools’
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Sep 11, 2018
Measuring attainment gaps ‘meaningless’, expert says
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Sep 10, 2018
How setting can lead to 'double disadvantage'
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Sep 7, 2018
Progress in closing attainment gap between wealthiest and poorest students is ‘too slow’, report warns
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Sep 4, 2018
NASUWT comments on the Programme for Government
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Sep 4, 2018
Pupils 'prefer sets to mixed-ability groups'
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Sep 4, 2018
New 'Ready for School' fund to close attainment gap
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Sep 4, 2018
John Swinney: Boys’ Brigade helps Scotland be best place in world for kids
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Aug 30, 2018
Two-year-old childcare offer 'fails to narrow attainment gap'
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Aug 23, 2018
Opportunity areas grant: S31 grant determination and letters
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Aug 23, 2018
Tory austerity means hard working pupils from deprived areas are not given the chance to succeed
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Angela Rayner
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Aug 22, 2018
GCSE results: Are we closing the disadvantage gap?
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Aug 21, 2018
‘More support staff vital to close attainment gap’
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Aug 10, 2018
Success of London schools 'not down to ethnicity'
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Aug 8, 2018
Five ways good schools support deprived pupils
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Aug 8, 2018
North-South divide 'all about pupil background'
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Aug 8, 2018
Fall in exam pass rates sparks anger over education cuts
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Aug 8, 2018
Schools must help us close gap, says St Andrews head Sally Mapstone
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Aug 4, 2018
Scotland: Ministers accused of setting low bar for pupils’ progress
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Jul 27, 2018
NEU comment on EPI report: Education in England
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Jul 25, 2018
Education in England: Annual Report 2018
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Jul 25, 2018
Progress on GCSE disadvantage gap stalling, study finds
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Jul 25, 2018
ASCL comment on EPI report on attainment gap
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Jul 25, 2018
'More than a century' to close GCSE attainment gap
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Jul 25, 2018
Colleges vital to closing attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their peers
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Jul 25, 2018
Closing disadvantage gap will take 'over a century'
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Jul 25, 2018
Revealed: The areas with the biggest disadvantage gap
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Jul 25, 2018
EPI: Disadvantage gap will take over 100 years to close
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Jul 25, 2018
Closing the attainment gap for poorest pupils ‘will take a century’
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Jul 25, 2018
Progress on narrowing the attainment gap is stalling | David Laws
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Jul 25, 2018
Edge comments on 'Potential for success' report
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Jul 24, 2018
Closing the gap in access to free ‘universal’ early education: What affects participation among low-income families?
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Jul 17, 2018
Cheap uniform won’t close attainment gap in Scotland
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Jul 15, 2018
North-south divide in schools is real – and it’s more complex than you think
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Jul 5, 2018
Edtech 'can help close the attainment gap'
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Jun 28, 2018
Who’s Left 2018, part three: The impact of reweighting on London and the regions
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Jun 21, 2018
Attainment gap widens in Scotland’s colleges
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Jun 21, 2018
New figures show attainment gap remains for vision impaired pupils
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Jun 20, 2018
John Swinney hails ‘real improvement’ in closing attainment gap
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Jun 19, 2018
Teachers’ tech trouble 'widens the attainment gap’
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Jun 15, 2018
Scotland: Tests that leave pupils in tears ‘must be scrapped’
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Jun 15, 2018
North 'should lead its own schools transformation'
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Jun 8, 2018
Addressing the attainment gap can help black students thrive in higher education
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May 25, 2018
Social mobility APPG: The final session
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May 24, 2018
Row as pupil poverty cash 'earmarked for swimming'
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May 24, 2018
Scotland: Row as pupil poverty cash 'earmarked for swimming'
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May 23, 2018
Swinney: Money for poor pupils must not prop up budgets
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May 23, 2018
Minister for School Standards questioned
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Nick Gibb
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May 22, 2018
Extra £50m to close attainment gap in Scotland
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John Swinney
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May 22, 2018
Minister for School Standards questioned
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May 18, 2018
It's time for universities to make race equality a priority | Valerie Amos
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May 16, 2018
More free schools set for the North and Midlands
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May 11, 2018
Row over funding of campus cops to raise attainment
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May 10, 2018
Scotland: Fund for poor pupils spent on school police presence in North Ayrshire
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May 10, 2018
Secretary of State pressed on action on education in the North
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May 8, 2018
Correspondence to the Secretary of State regarding education in the North
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May 8, 2018
MPs demand action to improve education in the north
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May 8, 2018
Poverty makes Scots parents feel like ‘outcasts’
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May 2, 2018
Improving Northern schools should be a national priority
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May 2, 2018
We can't keep papering over the cracks. Vulnerable children need stable support
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May 1, 2018
Sir David Carter: Attainment gap is the ‘civil rights challenge’ of our time
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Apr 25, 2018
Is selection and school choice hindering our work to close the education gap between rich and poor?
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Apr 25, 2018
Educational disadvantage: how does England compare?
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Apr 19, 2018
Setting and selection 'hold back disadvantaged pupils'
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Apr 19, 2018
Schools to share in over £90m to help disadvantaged learners
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Apr 17, 2018
Scotland's poor education image blamed on 'wild misreading' of research
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Apr 13, 2018
Why the Pupil Premium needs a rethink?
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Apr 4, 2018
Grammar schools should be ‘phased out’ as they damage social mobility, says study
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Mar 27, 2018
'Poor schools' leave Northern children behind
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Mar 26, 2018
Children in north 'being left behind', children's commissioner warns
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Mar 26, 2018
Northern children ‘being left behind’ – Children’s Commissioner
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Mar 26, 2018
Northern schools blast RSCs in children’s commissioner report
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Mar 26, 2018
Pupils in north of England 'being left behind' by southern counterparts
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Mar 26, 2018
What is the best way to close the attainment gap?
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Mar 23, 2018
The bill for Scotland's national tests is set to hit £4.6m
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Mar 23, 2018
Schools are 'spending anti-poverty money on Astroturf pitches and staff bonuses'
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Mar 22, 2018
Scottish school attainment gap cash used to send pupils on trips
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Scotland
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Mar 22, 2018
Modest narrowing of attainment gap in Scotland
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Mar 21, 2018
Teacher recruitment problems hit efforts to close Scotland's attainment gap
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Mar 16, 2018
‘Marginal’ progress on closing attainment gap between rich and poor
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Mar 16, 2018
The disadvantage ‘gap’ is a chasm
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Mar 4, 2018
Born to fail? No. But working class children do need help to succeed
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Mar 2, 2018
Long-term disadvantage, part five: What explains the gap between London and the north?
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Feb 23, 2018
Long-term disadvantage, part six: Measuring disadvantage in the north
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Feb 23, 2018
Schools in the north need more resources – but not because they’re less effective
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Feb 23, 2018
EEF grant making: 5 charts showing the what, who, where, when and why
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Feb 15, 2018
Why revive zombie grammar schools, Mr Hinds? Look at the success story in your own back yard | Fiona Millar
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Feb 13, 2018
Scotland: Poorer pupils closing gap in attainment
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Feb 13, 2018
Our greatest challenge: what is the best way to support the most challenged schools?
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Feb 12, 2018
£100m to deliver 21st Century Schools
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Feb 8, 2018
EEF grant making: 5 charts showing the what, who, where, when and why
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Feb 7, 2018
Looking into the London Challenge
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Feb 7, 2018
A tale of two sixth forms: inside the East End Eton at the heart of Britain’s education divide
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Feb 5, 2018
Research round-up - 5 February 2018
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Feb 5, 2018
Pupils in the north are being failed, says George Osborne
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Feb 2, 2018
Northern Powerhouse
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Feb 1, 2018
Educating the North: Driving ambition through the Powerhouse
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Feb 1, 2018
Our friends in the north
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Feb 1, 2018
Educating the North: driving ambition across the Powerhouse
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Feb 1, 2018
'Disadvantaged' children in the North of England are 'falling behind' by one GCSE grade
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Feb 1, 2018
North-South divide in education standards affecting too many northern young people, report warns
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Feb 1, 2018
Improving Northern schools should be 'top of Damian Hinds' in-tray'
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Feb 1, 2018
Funding for 16-18 vocational spending should be devolved to Northern mayors
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Feb 1, 2018
Northern Powerhouse education report: the eight findings for FE and skills
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Feb 1, 2018
Disadvantaged pupils achieve lower grades in north than in London
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Feb 1, 2018
Scotland: John Swinney announces breakdown of Pupil Equity Funding cash
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Jan 30, 2018
Poor pupils in the North are a GCSE grade behind
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Jan 28, 2018
Key Stage 4 performance tables 2017: Closing the gap just got harder
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Jan 25, 2018
6 findings on latest EEF report
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Jan 25, 2018
League tables: Ministers say narrowing attainment gap proves reforms work
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Jan 25, 2018
NASUWT comments on free school meals report
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Jan 24, 2018
Report into the attainment gap between poorer students and their classmates
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Jan 24, 2018
End Child Poverty coalition: new child poverty figures
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Jan 24, 2018
London schools lower the exam results gap between rich and poor
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Jan 24, 2018
Nursery education isn’t child’s play – it needs investment to be top quality
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Jan 24, 2018
The Pupil Premium: Fifteen lessons learned
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Jan 24, 2018
GCSE attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils 'will persist'
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Jan 24, 2018
Four things we learned about disadvantaged pupils' attainment gap today
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Jan 24, 2018
EEF predicts ‘little or no headway’ in closing attainment gap by 2021
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Jan 24, 2018
15 key lessons learned in the EEF’s first six years
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Jan 23, 2018
Closing the attainment gap - new EEF report reveals stark challenge
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Jan 23, 2018
6 charts on the attainment gap
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Jan 23, 2018
Daily roundup 19 January: Aspiration, child migrants, and poverty
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Jan 19, 2018
The devastating effect poverty is having on young children's education in Wales
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Wales
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Jan 19, 2018
Spotlight on multi-academy trusts: Pupil outcomes
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Jan 18, 2018
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 15 December 2017
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Dec 15, 2017
Maths challenge: England has one of the biggest gaps between high and low performing pupils in the developed world
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Dec 15, 2017
KS2 performance tables 2017: Three things from this morning’s data
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Dec 14, 2017
Social mobility: Action plan to target free schools at underperforming areas
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Dec 14, 2017
Justine Greening unveils strategy to increase poor children's opportunities
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Dec 14, 2017
Greening unveils four 'ambitions' to help improve social mobility
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Dec 14, 2017
ASCL comment on EPI primary report
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Dec 13, 2017
Closing GCSE gap could mean £110k boost for disadvantaged pupils
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Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted: More challenging KS2 SATs are leaving poorer pupils behind
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Dec 13, 2017
Pupil Development Grant considered "invaluable" by schools, says new report
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Dec 13, 2017
English education: World class in primary?
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Dec 13, 2017
Poorer pupils "falling behind" wealthier classmates as they get older
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Dec 13, 2017
EPI: Primary pupils have ‘long tail of underperformance’ in maths
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Dec 13, 2017
England has one of the world's largest gaps between highest and lowest performers in primary maths
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Dec 13, 2017
England has one of the biggest gaps between high and low performing pupils across developed world
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Dec 13, 2017
England’s maths attainment gap ‘among largest in world’
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Dec 13, 2017
Scotland: A third of pupils falling behind at primary school, say teachers
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Dec 13, 2017
Teacher numbers in Scotland hit highest level since 2010
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Dec 12, 2017
Children as young as three grouped by ‘ability’ for high-stakes tests
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Dec 1, 2017
Gap between disadvantaged children and their peers remains at the end of reception
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Nov 30, 2017
Speed-read: Nick Gibb’s ‘Grammar School’ response to MPs
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Nov 30, 2017
Call for phonics check to be scrapped
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Nov 30, 2017
Headteachers’ Charter shake-up still an unknown quantity
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Nov 29, 2017
Students with BTECs do worse at university – here's how we close the gap | Angus Holford
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Nov 29, 2017
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Nov 28, 2017
Closing degree attainment gaps
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Nov 28, 2017
Teachers in tough schools ‘should get extra money’
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Nov 28, 2017
Montessori closes attainment gap for pre-school children
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Nov 27, 2017
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Nov 22, 2017
Advancing Access - resources for teachers
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Nov 21, 2017
Schools still struggling to recruit new headteachers
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Nov 15, 2017
Corbyn warns Brexit could make teacher recruitment crisis worse
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Nov 13, 2017
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Oct 23, 2017
We've given up on grammars, says May: PM backs expansion of selective schools for first time since election
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Oct 18, 2017
SNP Conference 2017: Education shambles as teachers working double contract hours
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Oct 10, 2017
Academic gap between independent and state primaries narrows as fees rise
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Oct 9, 2017
Scotland: John Swinney pledges to measure progress on school attainment gap
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Sep 21, 2017
Could we get the best teachers into the most deprived schools?
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Sep 19, 2017
Educational inequality still ‘deeply entrenched’ despite marginal progress
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Sep 13, 2017
Ruth Davidson calls for new focus on education on 20th anniversary of Scottish devolution referendum
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Sep 11, 2017
Long-term disadvantage, part four: If Carlsberg made schools…and also designed funding formulae?
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Sep 8, 2017
Closing the gap: we need the best teachers in the most deprived schools
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Sep 8, 2017
Les Ebdon: ‘We need a step change on widening access‘
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Sep 6, 2017
Poorest pupils lag more than a year behind richer peers
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Sep 6, 2017
What more can be done to improve outcomes for black British students?
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Sep 5, 2017
'Heard it all before' Sturgeon savaged on schools after legislative plan pledges
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Sep 5, 2017
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Sep 4, 2017
Scottish government’s curriculum for excellence will widen inequality, says Lindsay Paterson
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Sep 4, 2017
SNP flagship curriculum could be 'disastrous' for schools, warns expert
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Sep 3, 2017
Sats results: Variation between local authorities shrinks – but the gap is still 'considerable'
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Aug 31, 2017
Gap for top marks at A-level narrows between state schools and private schools
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Aug 26, 2017
Exam results gap between state schools and private schools is narrowing, figures show
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Aug 25, 2017
Policy Tracker - what happened in the world of education in August 2017
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Aug 25, 2017
Volunteer teachers can close the attainment gap, say Tories
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Aug 19, 2017
Government not doing enough to prevent left-handed pupils being left behind, campaigners warn
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Aug 14, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 11 August 2017
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Aug 11, 2017
Universities’ shame – unpicking the black attainment gap
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Aug 11, 2017
Research round-up 4 August 2017
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Aug 10, 2017
Next step is to prove exam results are not a blip
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Aug 9, 2017
Closing the gap?
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Aug 9, 2017
We know how to close the attainment gap – but government and schools must commit to it
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Aug 9, 2017
The big education lesson from Finland? Trust your teachers | John Hart
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Aug 9, 2017
NASUWT welcomes call for more teachers
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Aug 8, 2017
50 years before we have an equitable school system
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Aug 8, 2017
Scottish education shake-up will mean less time on exams
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Aug 8, 2017
Disadvantaged pupils 'falling further behind', study finds
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Aug 3, 2017
Attainment gap between poorest pupils widens since 2007, report finds
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Aug 3, 2017
‘Regional disparity of disadvantaged pupils’ – expert reaction to new EPI report
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Aug 3, 2017
ATL comment on EPI report on gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers
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Aug 3, 2017
NASUWT comments on EPI 'Closing the Gap' report
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Aug 3, 2017
EPI report on educational attainment gap
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Aug 3, 2017
Think tank argues it is taking 'too long' to close attainment gap
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Aug 3, 2017
Widening participation in higher education and the attainment gap - sector response
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Aug 3, 2017
Closing the gap? Educational attainment and disadvantage
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Aug 3, 2017
Disadvantaged pupils 'falling further behind', study finds
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Aug 3, 2017
Opportunity areas exclude regions where attainment gap grows fastest, EPI finds
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Aug 3, 2017
Closing attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils will take 50 years
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Aug 3, 2017
Disadvantaged pupils fall behind despite funding
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Aug 3, 2017
Teach First set to bid for new Scottish fast-track course
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Aug 1, 2017
Long-term disadvantage, part one: Challenges and successes
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Jul 26, 2017
Attainment gap for long-term disadvantaged pupils is getting worse
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Jul 26, 2017
Long-term disadvantaged pupils are slipping further behind peers, study finds
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Jul 26, 2017
Promoting social mobility early
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Jul 26, 2017
Scottish schools in poorest areas to get £45m
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Jul 24, 2017
Scotland: SNP school shame: Scottish pupils lagging behind in improvements in reading
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Jul 24, 2017
Where children live increasingly important for educational outcomes, says new report
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Jul 13, 2017
Reaction to the Commission on Inequality in Education's final report
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Jul 13, 2017
Report finds mentors have remarkable effect for disadvantaged pupils
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Jul 13, 2017
Justine Greening: we should not accept Britain as it has been
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Jul 12, 2017
Household income impacts on children's prospects, report finds
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Jul 12, 2017
Household income plays crucial role in determining a child's prospects – report
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Jul 12, 2017
Steve Williams: Poverty can lead to poor job prospects
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Jul 11, 2017
Nicola Sturgeon underminded by her own poverty tsar over university inequality
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Jul 3, 2017
John Swinney accused of "farcical" approach over policy on closing the attainment gap
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Jul 2, 2017
Don’t gloss over the gap for pupils in care, ministers in Scotland told
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Jun 30, 2017
Schools spending down by £1.2 billion in seven years, Labour claims
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Jun 29, 2017
ASCL comment on Social Mobility Commission report
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Jun 28, 2017
Scottish regional reforms under fire
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Jun 28, 2017
Social mobility: Call for radical reform on 'divided' Britain
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Jun 28, 2017
'Time for change' - sector response
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Jun 28, 2017
`Hunger for change´, says Social Mobility Commission chairman
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Jun 28, 2017
Sir Peter Lampl responds to the Social Mobility Commission’s ‘Time for change’ report
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Jun 28, 2017
An analysis of 2 decades of efforts to improve social mobility
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Jun 28, 2017
John Swinney urges rival parties to back education reform
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Jun 28, 2017
Gap between UK rich and poor widening
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Jun 28, 2017
Divisions in society leading to 'sour mood'
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Jun 28, 2017
Secondary school attainment gap still ‘stubbornly large’, social mobility study finds
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Jun 28, 2017
Social mobility: radical reform urged to repair divided Britain
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Jun 28, 2017
'No prospect' of GCSE gap between rich and poor closing, warns damning report
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Jun 28, 2017
Poor children said to be 40 years behind better‑off classmates
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Jun 28, 2017
Sailing and canoeing lessons? New plans to close education attainment gap under scrutiny
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Jun 25, 2017
Little progress made on education attainment gap in Scotland
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Jun 21, 2017
Scottish Government’s education record under fire
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Jun 20, 2017
Headteachers win more powers in Scottish schools shake-up
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Jun 15, 2017
'Sweeping' new powers for Scottish head teachers
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Jun 15, 2017
Headteachers to be handed sweeping powers under new plans
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Jun 15, 2017
Sweeping new powers for headteachers in bid to close attainment gap
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Jun 15, 2017
Councils fire opening salvo in battle over future of schools
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Jun 15, 2017
Scottish schools facing further round of government reforms
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Jun 14, 2017
Holiday hunger leads to five-week learning lag
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Jun 12, 2017
Teachers threaten boycott over controversial testing plan
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Jun 9, 2017
Headteachers ‘anxious’ over £120m fund to tackle educational inequality
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Jun 8, 2017
Theresa May’s forgotten pledge: how does the UK get more white working class boys into university?
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Jun 6, 2017
Evidence of intent
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Jun 5, 2017
Social mobility is not on the agenda this election - that's why Teach First has devised its own manifesto
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Jun 2, 2017
School funding: Why we must not lose focus on addressing disadvantage
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Jun 1, 2017
Pioneering scheme seeks to close the poverty-related vocabulary gap in primary school
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May 15, 2017
The Global Search for Education: Meet the Ministers – from Scotland – John Swinney
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May 12, 2017
Tom Peterkin: No hiding place from damning school report card
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May 10, 2017
Figures show drop in Scottish pupil literacy rates
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May 9, 2017
Sturgeon condemned over ‘ten-year failure’ on schools
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May 3, 2017
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May 3, 2017
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Apr 28, 2017
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Apr 27, 2017
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Apr 25, 2017
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Apr 24, 2017
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Apr 20, 2017
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Apr 18, 2017
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Apr 15, 2017
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Apr 11, 2017
Daniel Blake: blame austerity for failing schools
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Apr 8, 2017
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Apr 5, 2017
Religious schooling won’t help tackle Scotland’s attainment gap
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Apr 3, 2017
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Apr 3, 2017
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Mar 30, 2017
Scottish pupils 'not guaranteed a high-quality education'
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Mar 27, 2017
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Mar 23, 2017
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Mar 21, 2017
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Mar 20, 2017
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Mar 17, 2017
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Mar 16, 2017
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Mar 15, 2017
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Mar 15, 2017
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Mar 15, 2017
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Mar 14, 2017
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Mar 14, 2017
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Mar 14, 2017
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Mar 11, 2017
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Mar 10, 2017
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Mar 10, 2017
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Mar 10, 2017
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Mar 10, 2017
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Mar 10, 2017
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Mar 8, 2017
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Mar 4, 2017
Dear Justine Greening, homework widens the gap between rich and poor children | Michael Rosen
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Feb 28, 2017
Children in UK's poorest areas 10 times more likely to go into care
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Feb 28, 2017
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Feb 27, 2017
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Feb 24, 2017
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Feb 23, 2017
Apprenticeships for Northern growth: challenges, trends and current reforms
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Feb 22, 2017
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Feb 16, 2017
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Feb 14, 2017
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Feb 13, 2017
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Feb 13, 2017
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Feb 13, 2017
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Feb 10, 2017
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Feb 9, 2017
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Feb 9, 2017
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Feb 9, 2017
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Feb 9, 2017
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Feb 9, 2017
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Feb 3, 2017
Headteachers to be handed £120m to tackle attainment gap
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Feb 1, 2017
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Jan 31, 2017
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Jan 30, 2017
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Jan 24, 2017
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Jan 19, 2017
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Jan 18, 2017
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Jan 11, 2017
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Jan 11, 2017
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Dec 16, 2016
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Dec 15, 2016
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Scotland: Pupils are failing in the basics, say teachers
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Dec 13, 2016
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Dec 13, 2016
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