Yet again the Sutton Trust has released a report and press blurb based on fatally flawed analysis of their own data
Here is the BBC story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46470838
Here is their press release
www.suttontrust.com/research-paper/access-to-advantage-university-admissions/
Here is the full report
www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/AccesstoAdvantaged.pdf
My LEA got listed as one of the ones that hardly sends any kids to Oxbridge or the Russell Group
I know this to be untrue so I checked the data.
They deem the location of pupils to be where they sit their A levels.
Southampton kids mostly do A levels in Hampshire
so Hampshire is getting the credit for bright Southampton kids
Then you look at the other LEAs that are shamed for failing their kids
and discover that many also have good 6th forms in neighbouring LEAs
so the schools are NOT failing the kids
just the Sutton Trust does not know how to read a map
again
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Talkinpeece · 09/12/2018 19:02
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