Analysis of the examination results of over a million candidates at GCSE and A-level shows that the traditional science subjects are among the hardest. CEM Centre researchers, Robert Coe, Jeff Searle, Patrick Barmby, Karen Jones and Steve Higgins, used five different methods t » Read More

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57 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QL; 2008   The Witch Hunt is on.  A Government obsessed with phoney egalitarianism and control freakery is aligning itself with the strident secularist lobby to threaten the future of faith schools in Britain. At stake is o » Read More

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  Elite British-style schools open to all - but only in Sweden   Schools in the state sector in Sweden can offer the acclaimed International GCSE (IGCSE) science qualifications that have been denied to British state school pupils by the government, according to Swedish Lessons, » Read More

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  13 June   Sixty thousand state school pupils who have been among the top fifth of academic performers in their year do not go on to higher education, according to new research commissioned by the Sutton Trust The study by the Institute of Education and the Institut » Read More

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10 June 2008 This report, commissioned by the CfBT Education Trust , examines how overall levels of public spending on education and schools in the UK have evolved in recent years, how the English school funding system allocates money to individual schools and the extent to which the school f » Read More

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 Maria Charles, Alison Marsh, Anne Milne, Ceri Morris, Emma Scott and Yarim Shamsan ;National Foundation for Educational Research Introduction  The Secondary School Curriculum and Staffing Survey (SSCSS) has been carried out every four to six years since 1965. The 2007 survey » Read More

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Laura Kounine, Professor John Marks, Elizabeth Truss Download full report (PDF 1.03MB) - BUY The UK’s maths economy which powers the financial services sector and wider industry is in danger of atrophy as fewer students study mathematics and attainment falls. At t » Read More

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The third report on the state of equity in the English education system from the Centre for Equity in Education, The University of Manchester. May 2008 This is the third report on the state of equity in the English education system from the Centre for Equity in Education based at The Univer » Read More

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25 May 2008  Schools need ambitious reform to improve learning and help lay the foundations for children to enjoy a healthy and happy adulthood, says the Institute for Public Policy Research.The think tank unveils a range of proposals to tackle the recent plateau in pupil progress » Read More

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PRIMED FOR SUCCESS? THE CHARACTERISTICS AND PRACTICES OF STATE SCHOOLS WITH GOOD TRACK RECORDS OF ENTRY INTO PRESTIGIOUS UK UNIVERSITIES  May 2008   A report on research carried out for the Sutton Trust   Andrew Curtis, Institute of Education, University » Read More

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