Coverage in today’s @ObserverUK of our recent paper in Education Economics https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/31/private-school-bursaries-still-too-scarce-to-tackle-inequality

Around 15% of private school pupils received bursaries. For those below the top income decile, a large majority – up to four out of five children – receive no grants or bursaries. This source of funds cannot account for private school participation in this group.

Our analysis found that, among those who received it, average financial support was around £4,900 in 2011–2018, little changed from earlier periods and thus accounting for a smaller fraction of the fees (35% compared with 57%) than it constituted in 1997-2003.

Read about more of the paper’s findings in my thread https://twitter.com/jakeanders/status/1351441877745217537

And read the whole paper here: https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2021.1874878