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.

A DfE research brief from the Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT).

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

This report explores what types of firm engage with the apprenticeship programme and if there are characteristics that make them more or less likely to offer apprenticeships.

The analyses summarised here explore the educational outcomes of disengaged young people from a nationally representative cohort who reported taking vocational courses in Year 10 compared to similarly disengaged young people who did not.

This study investigated the hypothesis that offering vocational options in Year 10 can help improve levels of educational engagement and subsequent outcomes among young people disengaged from education.

Four distinct pieces of analysis to help us better understand young people's early interactions with the labour market.