A recent report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) finds that progress over the last decade to close the attainment gap between pupils from disadvantaged families has been “very slow”.
Meanwhile, analysis of this year’s A-level results by the Sutton Trust shows that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils accessing university compared with their more advantaged peers has widened since the Covid pandemic.
The funding for the EEF, which has been taken out of a £6bn pot for Covid recovery, will support the organisation to carry out education trials and interventions to improve attainment across schools, colleges and early years settings, according to the Department for Education.
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