Building skills outside the classroom
Fleur Sexton, Deputy Lieutenant West Midlands and CEO of PET-Xi – one of the most hard-hitting and dynamic training providers in the UK with a reputation for success with the hardest to reach – discusses how providing extracurricular opportunities for young people can help build success and narrow the disadvantage gap… Results from a nationwide […]
Utilising objective data to provide equitable student support
The ability to drive social mobility through equitable support is available to the universities that can leverage the student engagement data that they already have, explains Richard Gascoigne, CEO of Solutionpath… We’ve all heard the term levelling up, but what does it really mean for higher education? To me, it simply means getting everyone up […]
Multimillion investment in early years education and boost social mobility
An investment to better support early years education and child development spearheads a range of initiatives announced to halve the number of children finishing reception year without the early communication or reading skills they need by 2028. Latest research shows more than a quarter of four-and-five-year-olds (28 per cent) lacked the early communication and literacy […]