This report discusses the strengths and limitations of several approaches to assessing the effect of education on productivity.

This note looks at the relationship between reading skills and maths at age 10 with earnings in later life.

This research report presents the findings from an evaluation of Key Stage 2 writing moderation.

Despite increasing numbers of young people taking a gap year, there is little evidence on the characteristics of gap year takers, their motivations for taking a gap year,what they do whilst they are out of education and what effect this decision has on their longer-term outcomes. This report aims to fill these gaps, by providing quantitative evidence from two datasets on gap year takers in the UK.

This research report presents the findings from a study that investigated the extent of parental worklessness in families with young and teenage children, and determined how parental worklessness impacts on children’s cognitive ability, education attainment, behaviours, attitude to school, academic aspirations and experience of the transition from school to work.

This report presents the findings of a survey of local authorities, examining preparations for Raising the Participation Age, conducted by NatCen Social Research on behalf of the Department for Education.

A 'chalk and talk' presentation for the Social Market Foundation 31st May 2012

Welcome to the second edition of the CAYT digest.

In the context of a difficult 2011 labour market, this report examines the early educational and labour market transitions made by young people.