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Teachers with a physics degree may improve entry rates to GCSE Physics, but don’t appear to affect attainment

We want the nation’s children to be taught by teachers who are passionate experts in the subject they teach. There is widespread concern that many children are taught science and maths by teachers without an academic degree in the subject. This shortage is most acutely felt in physics, with large numbers of unfilled teacher training [...]

By Rebecca Allen|2016-12-07T12:55:39+00:005th March 2015|Exams and assessment, Teachers|

The ‘lucky’ children who just get into grammar schools don’t appear to achieve more than their primary school contemporaries who just miss out

It is actually quite hard to say anything about the causal impact of grammar schools. There is no such thing as selective and non-selective areas: 1 in 5 grammar school students cross over a local authority border on the way to school. And perhaps as many as 1 in 5 grammar school students were not in [...]

By Rebecca Allen|2017-10-23T13:16:38+01:005th March 2015|Admissions|