Donna Ferguson | Schools Week

‘We’ll be forced into the red’ – heads react to ‘derisory’ pay offer

‘This announcement will take broken budgets – and decimate them’

School cuts: Ministers’ seats will be £7.4m worse-off next year

But constituencies of DfE politicians will face a smaller average cut than the rest of England, analysis shows

Lee Elliot Major, professor of social mobility, University of Exeter

Lee Elliot Major gave up a dream job to become the UK’s first professor of social mobility. Donna Ferguson finds out why he made the move to academia – and his latest plans to improve the life chances for our poorest pupils. Lee Elliot Major recently confessed to a group of headteachers that he’d just […]

How Covid hit poorer pupils harder: 6 COSMO study key findings

The pandemic has “severely widened existing inequalities” between poorer pupils and their better-off peers, a report on the impact of Covid has found. The COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities (COSMO) study surveyed more than 13,000 pupils across England who were in Year 11 in 2021 and have now just entered Year 13. The study was […]