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Evidence review identifies keys to Pupil Premium science success

Pupil Premium and disadvantage

Educational inequality still ‘deeply entrenched’ despite marginal progress

Examinations & Qualifications

At a glance headlines: 7/9/2017

Teaching resources

Crucial Pupil Premium guidance – from Ofsted and the students themselves

Inspection advice

Research reveals England’s ‘entrenched literacy problems’

English

Social mobility report advises against setting and tiering

Higher education

Every region promised access to mentoring programmes in £3.5m investment

Interventions

International panel impressed with efforts to close gap

Narrowing the Gap

Poor pupils ‘caught in crossfire’ of political ideologies – Ofsted chief

Government policy

Teachers win up to £15,000 to develop innovative ideas for raising achievement

Teaching resources

'Small but growing’ number of schools using Pupil Premium to offset cuts

Pupil Premium and disadvantage

Northern schools have a ‘harder job’ but still face £1,300 funding gap

School improvement