Education

What is happening to spending in schools and colleges?

Explainer

What are current levels of spending in schools and colleges and how have they been affected by rising cost pressures?

8 November 2022

Latest trends in further education and sixth form spending in England

Comment

Updated analysis of trends in further education and sixth form spending per pupil and upcoming resource challenges facing colleges and sixth forms.

24 October 2022

Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls’ trajectories: Evidence from India

Comment

Changing the attitudes and behaviours of those enforcing restrictive societal norms is critical for meaningful improvements in women’s wellbeing.

24 October 2022

Does funding follow need? An analysis of the geographic distribution of public spending in England

Report

In the financial year before COVID-19, government spending that can be attributed to England amounted to £541 billion or £9,650 per person.

20 October 2022

What happened to youth apprenticeships?

Comment

Research Economist Imran Tahir and Simon Field write for FE News on the decline in youth apprenticeships in England.

29 September 2022

The missing middle of higher technical learners

Comment

Research Economist Imran Tahir and Simon Field write for FE News on what’s behind this ‘missing middle’ of higher technical learners in England.

22 September 2022

Will public sector workers get a pay rise?

Podcast

With inflation squeezed living standards, will the government have to give public sector workers a pay rise?

21 September 2022

The importance of second chances in our education system

Comment

Research Economist Imran Tahir writes for FE News on lack of adequate second chances offered to adults via the education system.

15 September 2022

First generation elite: the role of school networks

Working Paper

Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study why this phenomenon emerges.

14 September 2022

The UK education system preserves inequality – new report

Comment

Our new comprehensive study, shows that education in the UK is not tackling inequality.

13 September 2022

Student finance

Collection

Read all our work on the student loans system here.

31 August 2022

Image of children working in a classroom

Education is one of the most important predictors of people's life chances, shaping outcomes like work and pay, health, and wealth. At this online event, our panel will look at what aspects of the education system make the most difference to inequality and what policymakers can do if they want to build a more equal education system.

Education inequalities

Report

We look at shifts in the education landscape in the UK and its impact on inequalities.

16 August 2022

School spending and costs: the coming crunch

Report

By 2024−25, after accounting for the specific costs facing schools, we estimate that school spending per pupil will still be 3% lower than in 2010.

2 August 2022

Early Childhood Development, Human Capital, and Poverty

Journal article

In this article, we discuss the framework used in economics to model parental investments and early childhood development.

1 August 2022

Families and inequalities

Report

Families play a key role in nurturing, socialising and supporting children. Britain has seen marked changes in partnership and parenting behaviours.

28 July 2022

Early childhood inequalities

Presentation

The environment that children are raised in, and their development of cognitive, and social and emotional skills affect the subsequent trajectory of their lives. Inequalities between children in these domains open up very early in life.

23 June 2022

Early childhood inequalities

Report

Through the lottery of birth, children are born into different socio-economic circumstances and grow up in environments that are remarkably different from each other. This report looks at inequalities in early childhood in the UK.

23 June 2022