Unpacking Complexity Two weeks ago, when the LKMco team sat down to consider what we wanted research at LKMco to do we agreed that: “Polarisation in education rarely benefits anyone and instead want to shine a light on nuance and complexity to bring together those with different points of view and help them move on.” …
Our new report with King’s College London’s Widening Participation Department will be launched at the Brilliant Club’s annual conference in Peterborough and calls on universities to work with parents to increase access to Higher Education. Writing for the BBC, Branwen Jeffreys said: “Debt and future job prospects are parents’ biggest worries about their children going to …
A frightening proposition Four years ago I sat in the House of Commons being quizzed by the Education Select Committee. Sat next to me was Professor Robert Plomin of Kings College London. Much of what he said about the relationship between genes and educational attainment seemed to threaten my deeply held beliefs about education – …
Yesterday’s DfE report Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential: a plan for improving social mobility through education put a strong emphasis on ‘place’, recognising that how young people ‘get on’ in life cannot easily be separated from the areas in which they grow up. I’ve blogged before, here and here, on the strong links between young people’s …
Having worked in a Regional Schools Commissioner’s office, LKMco Associate Kate Bowen-Viner knows a thing or two about the Free Schools Programme. Indeed, having published “The 6 Predictable Failures of Free Schools… and how to avoid them” by Laura McInerney back in 2011, it’s an area we’ve had a long running interest in as a …
