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The government has delivered an extra 103,000 apprenticeships over the last year, twice as many as expected. Business Secretary, Vince Cable, said the government was determined to “break down barriers…

Plans to allow universities to expand by encouraging them to take more high-achieving pupils could undermine social mobility, says universities leader, Pam Tatlow, head of the Million+ group. Moves to…

School governors and employer engagement in education, talk by Professor Chris James, the presentation and audio file are now available to download from our Research section….

The number of graduates applying for each job has doubled since 2009, as three successive years of university leavers struggle with an over-saturated market. Read the full Telegraph story….

Newspaper City AM says businesses “must back our financial literacy campaign”. Millions of people are unable to grasp fully even the most basic of financial products, such as mortgages or…

All children should be forced to study mathematics up the age of 18 to prevent the vast majority of pupils leaving school with poor numeracy skills, according to experts. The…

New Taskforce research has been published that explores how ‘experience of the world of work’ feeds into admissions to Russell Group universities. It is a desktop review of admissions and…

Just five schools in England sent more pupils to Oxford and Cambridge over three years than nearly 2,000 others ‘combined’, Sutton Trust research and BBC data analysis has found. Read…

Andy Burnham, the shadow education secretary, says secondary schools should give pupils more vocational opportunities. Labour calls for schools to teach ‘route into work’. Burnham will this week reveal plans…

The gap between the poorest pupils and their better-off peers in struggling schools in England is wider than in other schools, research suggests. White British pupils “seemed to pose the…