Eton College has signed an agreement with an academy trust to open three selective state sixth form colleges for young people who live in deprived northern areas. The landmark agreement, which was signed this month, has seen the 581-year-old independent boarding school form a partnership with Star Academies to open three highly selective sixth … Read more
Most of us operate at 50 per cent of our mental capacity. It’s like having a high-performance Ferrari and just using it to nip to the shops once in a while. Having spent the past 25 years practising as a neurosurgeon, there is not much I don’t know about the workings of the brain, and … Read more
Former prime minister Tony Blair today backed demands for laptops and tablets to be given to hundreds of thousands of children who face their schools closing in the face of a surge in Covid infections. He was joined by three former education secretaries in urging Boris Johnson to help the poorest children who face an … Read more
A boy retrieves an item from a rubble-strewn street of East London after German bombing raids in the first month of the Blitz, September 1940 The Blitz began on September 7, 1940, and was the most intense bombing campaign Britain has ever seen. Named after the German word ‘Blitzkrieg’, meaning lightning war, the Blitz claimed … Read more
Last week I gave evidence at the Education Committee’s inquiry into why poor white children do so badly at school. It’s an inquiry that was long overdue. The fact that I was there at all was something of a miracle because I am white and come from a single-parent, working-class family where money was always … Read more
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick facing demand for a probe into £25m payment for town in his constituency from scheme designed to help more deprived areas By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 13:59 BST, 11 October 2020 | Updated: 14:00 BST, 11 October 2020 Minister Robert Jenrick was facing mounting calls for an investigation … Read more
(Not so) fast food! Warning as pet tortoises are being eaten ALIVE by hungry restaurant rats deprived of kitchen scraps during lockdown Tortoises are being attacked by rats who are being deprived of their normal food With many of the UK’s restaurants closed, kitchen scraps are not being left out Owners have complained of their … Read more
White working-class children are UK’s most deprived pupils – and they’ll be hardest hit by Covid fallout too, researchers warn MPs Research was submitted to the Committee Education Select Committee Children eligible for free school meals half as likely to do well in GCSEs as poor people from ethnic backgrounds One Oxford University don said … Read more
‘Cooperative’ and ‘independent’ working dogs are equally annoyed when deprived of a treat, new experiments show. Dog experts have long suspected that some breeds evolved to be more cooperative as they began to resent unequal rewards and favouritism from their human keepers. Border collies, for example, were especially willing due to their particular dislike for … Read more