Can ‘Smart’ Opportunity Areas help close the education disadvantage gap?
28.01.22 In 2016, Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening introduced a new initiative to increase social mobility in...
Read moreNorth East A-Level results fall behind
10.08.21 There were more worrying signs of a growing North-South divide in education today, as A-Level students across the...
Read moreFormer Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield joins NPP
26.07.21 The former Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield is joining the board of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP)...
Read moreGovernment’s ‘tunnel vision’ in education is failing to help children in deprived areas, shadow schools minister warns
11.03.21 The shadow minister for schools has warned that the government’s “tunnel vision” in education is failing to help...
Read more“A disadvantage chasm”: Long-term disadvantage in secondary schools
27.01.21 Our new report shows that the number of pupils from poorer backgrounds rose across many parts of the...
Read moreDisadvantage to deprived Northern pupils compounded by weeks of lost learning
16.12.20 Northern pupils are still facing the biggest disruption to learning this year, the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) has...
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Read moreNumber of disadvantaged pupils soars by 288,000
23.11.20 Top-up school funding must be targeted at the children who need it most, says the chair of the...
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Read moreUnfair school league tables fail to give accurate picture of pupil progress
11.11.20 Current DfE secondary school league tables are failing to give a fair picture of pupil progress by ignoring...
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