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Social mobility and selection do not mix

    Opinion
  • Thursday, May 4, 2017
    • | CYP Now
Hard on the heels of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health report The State of Child Health, which showed the strong links between poverty and poor health outcomes, the Social Mobility Commission has done the same for education with low-income pupils' progress at secondary school.

New term target: more collaboration in education

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, August 30, 2022
    • | CYP Now
September is a bittersweet month for many in England and Wales, forever connected with the end of the summer holidays and the start of a new school year. To embrace the spirit of a fresh start, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to see change this coming academic year.

The trouble with alternative education

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, June 2, 2009
    • | CYP Now
It really is quite incredible that it has taken Ofsted 10 years to conclude that a significant minority of schools are failing to provide suitable forms of alternative education. Those close to the action will have known this ever since the opportunity for "disapplication" became available. The reason is not so much a lack of resources - though in many ways this is reason enough, for alternatives are often dramatically more expensive - but rather a case of misunderstanding what the alternative curriculum was all about in the first place.

The best education begins in the home

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 30, 2007
    • | CYP Now
A number of issues have converged for me in recent months. There was the Rowntree report on family relationships, and the Sutton Trust report on social mobility - or rather, the shocking lack of it. The German EU presidency culminated this summer in a congress on young people and strategies for social cohesion. And, just the other weekend, Lewis Hamilton came within a point of being crowned Formula One champion in his first season. This could almost be a quiz question: what is the connection?

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