30 August 2022
19 August 2022
18 August 2022
13 July 2022
16 June 2022
3 August 2022
Our work on Education and Skills aims to understand what matters for the healthy development of children, from infancy to young adulthood. It tracks education spending in various stages of education and assesses the effectiveness of government policies at improving children’s outcomes and inequalities therein.
16 August 2022
2 August 2022
21 July 2022
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
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
17 June 2022
16 June 2022
Due to inflation forecast errors alone, students from the poorest families will lose £100 per month in maintenance support.
15 June 2022
This event examined the potential role that adult education can play in providing a genuine second chance, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds or who leave school with few formal qualifications. IFS researchers set out the planned reforms in the context of recent changes to learner numbers and funding, as well as the likely impact of planned reforms given the details and evidence base.
13 June 2022
In the last decade, there have been significant cuts to spending on adult education and large falls in the numbers of adult learners, particularly amongst those taking low-level qualifications.
13 June 2022
9 June 2022
“There is much to do to get childcare policy right, but let’s not mix it up with sorting out the present cost-of-living crisis.” Paul Johnson writes for The Times.
23 May 2022
We discuss how the cost of childcare has changed over time, and how it varies across the country and between different types of families.
20 May 2022
4 May 2022
We consider who would be affected by each of the proposed MERs, and then assess whether the introduction of a minimum eligibility requirement is likely to achieve the government’s stated aim of ensuring that ‘students undertaking degree study have attained the baseline skills required to engage with and benefit from the course’.
27 April 2022
22 April 2022
We investigate variation in early-career earnings by degree class outcome using the Department for Education’s Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset.
20 April 2022
13 April 2022
At the end of February, the government announced the most significant reform to the student loans system in England since at least 2012.
8 April 2022
20 March 2022
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