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Prue Leith from ‘Bake Off’ says she ‘hates’ her posh accent. But speaking RP is rarely a hindrance, argues Katie Rosseinsky

Strong engagement with students from socially deprived backgrounds rebuts claims of ‘middle-class grab’ of degree apprenticeships, finds audit

Sir Peter Lampl says children ‘bust their guts’ when they get the chance but are being failed by ministers who come and go like a ‘bloody railway station’

The Sutton Trust says only 20 per cent of families earning less than £20,000 a year will have access to the planned expansion of funded places for early years provision, compared to 80 per cent of those with household incomes over £45,000.

It seems too easy to forget what early years provision means for children amid all the challenges currently hitting the sector

The early years sector is increasingly moving towards ‘childcare at the expense of high-quality education’, the Sutton Trust warns.

The early years sector is increasingly moving towards offering childcare “at the expense of providing high quality education” due to “mounting pressures” on providers, according to latest research.

Many who praise a headteacher for preventing Muslim prayers are oddly sanguine about the number of faith schools in Britain, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

<strong>Editorial:</strong> To fight inequality in a highly unequal city, Brighton council is changing its admission policy. It’s a big, bold move

New research published by the Sutton Trust has found that there are 155 secondary comprehensives in England that are more socially selective than the average grammar school.