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Does private tuition exacerbate educational inequality?

2^nd June 2015
- Henry Fagg
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The drivers of educational attainment are complex. On the one hand, a child’s lot in life can be dramatically improved when they are exposed to excellent school teaching. For example, pupils from poorer backgrounds in Britain have been shown to gain 1.5 years’ worth of learning in a single year when taught by very effective teachers, compared to only 0.5 years with badly performing teachers.

Democratic education + Education + Inequality
Student Debt: Abandon All Hope?

23^rd January 2014
- Michelle Highman
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Much has been written over the last fifteen years, since University tuition fees were first introduced, about the rights and the wrongs of asking graduates to pay back society for their degrees.

Education + Higher education + Personal finance + University + University fees
Democratising Schooling: Enfranchising our pupils to foster responsibility

27^th November 2013
- Tom Versluys
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In previous decades the UK’s education system has been targeted for numerous reforms, but in many ways its potential has barely been tapped. The biggest failure of today’s vision of educational reform is its inability to see schools as the generators of social, political and economic capital that they could be.

Democratic education + Education + Education reform + Radical education

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