In this Briefing Note, we produce new estimates of the likely cuts to overall public spending on education in the UK up to 2014-15.

This article focuses on the constraints on parental choice of school caused by geographical location.

In this article, we compare the nature of private schooling in both Australia and the United Kingdom. The experience of the two countries has been very different over the recent past.

In this paper, we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their use and argue that they nonetheless have a positive role to play in improving the quality of education.

In this paper, we use linked survey and administrative data to assess the potential biases that missing control variables cause in the calculation of CVA measures of school performance.

Details of the proposed changes to higher education (HE) have been finalised ahead of tomorrow's vote in the House of Commons on the raising of the cap on tuition fees to £9,000. We offer an analysis in this Briefing Note.

This note looks at trends in education spending under Labour and at the three main parties proposals for early years, schools and higher education.

IFS researchers highlight some of the trade-offs that would be involved in reforming the current system of fees and loans applying to full-time undergraduate study

In this paper we offer an appraisal of the economics of education research area, charting its history as a field and discussing the ways in which economists have contributed both to education research and to education policy-making.

In this article we explore the economic principles behind funding and attending university.

In this paper, we contribute to the empirical case for universal pre-primary education.

This article undertakes a quantitative analysis of substantial reforms to the system of higher education finance in England, first announced in 2004 and revised in 2007.

This article looks at the Government's agenda of parental choice and school competition.

This note is based on analysis prepared by IFS at the request of the House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee, for their inquiry into Public Expenditure on Education and Skills being carried out during June and July 2006.

This commentary compares the university funding of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. These policies have important implications for students, graduates, universities and taxpayers.

Scotland has much higher public expenditure per head than England, but little work has been done to compare Scottish and English needs.

Many readers are no doubt currently deciding whether or not to attend higher education.

In this paper, we consider research on links between higher education and family background, focusing particularly on the experiences of two cohorts of individuals born in 1958 and 1970.

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.

The Government's plans for reforming Higher Education (HE) funding have been a source of great controversy. Much of this controversy has been focused on what the reforms will mean for students from different family income backgrounds, and on the levels of debt they may need to incur to go to higher education. Concern has also been raised about how graduates will be affected by these debt repayments throughout their working lives, as well as whether or not the funds raised will improve the situation of universities significantly. This Briefing Note addresses these issues, as well as describing the evolution of the proposed reforms to Higher Education funding in recent months. In doing this, we set out and explain the system which is most likely to be implemented if the HE Bill is passed, and discuss the ways in which students, graduates, and universities are likely to be affected. We also consider the possible effects on the taxpayer.

In this paper I summarize some recent developments in the literature on the econometrics of program evaluation.

In this commentary, IFS compares the reforms proposed by the two parties, looking at the effect on student and graduate finances, the distributional impact on households with different incomes, and the cost to the Exchequer and taxpayers in general.

This paper examines the family incomecollege enrolment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in postsecondary schooling.

This article surveys the literature on education as a matter of public policy

This paper provides a non-technical review of the evidence on the returns to education and training for the individual, the firm and the economy at large

The subsidy of childcare for pre-school-age children has moved rapidly up the political agenda in the UK, and government policy has developed considerably in this area.

This paper considers the use of fees versus the use of taxation for the finance of higher education in a framework that pays special attention to some of the