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Evaluation of Excellence in Cities
Date started: 01 January 2001
This project analyses the government's Excellence in Cities project, which targets secondary schools in inner cities. The work is being undertaken at IFS alongside the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).
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This paper reports on the short run impact of one of the U.K. government's flagship education policies, the Excellence in Cities (EiC) program.

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