Publication Database

Little evidence of improvement from primary school academy conversion

01-Dec-16

LSE

The LSE�s Centre for Economic Performance examined how far turning primary schools in England into academies in the first couple of years of the policy had helped raise performance and found little evidence that it had.

Education

Unlocking regional growth

01-Dec-16

CBI

The CBI highlighted the education attainment and skills of young people along with transport links, improved management practices and innovation, as one of four major ways in which regional productivity could be improved.

Education

Academies Annual Report 2014-15

01-Dec-16

Department for Education

The DfE published its latest (2014/15) annual report on how the academy and free school system is shaping up with a range of data on sponsors, partners, conversions, performance, financial health and other profile issues.

Education

Gaps in grammar

01-Dec-16

The Sutton Trust

New research by The Sutton Trust has shown that disadvantaged children are much less likely than other pupils to attend grammar schools. However, it found that other students from families on below average incomes (those �Just About Managing�), are also significantly under-represented.

Education

Leaving education early: putting vocational education and training centre stage

01-Dec-16

CEDEFOP

This Cedefop study examines the contribution that vocational education and training (VET) can make to reducing early leaving from education and training (ELET). It aims to assist national policy-makers and decision-makers at different levels in developing existing monitoring systems to measure ELVET and inform VET policies to tackle ELET.

Education

Going Places: Innovation in Further Education & Skills

01-Dec-16

The Skills Commission

The Skills Commission launched its latest report focusing on innovation in the FE sector and ways in which it can be developed to help meet the needs of local communities and learners in the future.�

Education

Social and ethnic inequalities in choice available and choices made at age 16

01-Dec-16

Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission

This research provides an up-to-date understanding of post-16 educational choices and transitions, highlighting the implications of differences in choice sets for students from different areas and backgrounds. Specifically, it explores how the choice sets available to students vary according to their geographic, social and educational background.

Education

Financial and enterprise education in schools

28-Nov-16

House of Commons Library

The House of Commons Library produced a briefing paper on the current arrangements for the teaching of financial and enterprise education in schools.

Education

Enterprise education: how secondary schools prepare young people for work

24-Nov-16

Ofsted

Ofsted have released findings from a survey, which looks at how well schools work together with local businesses and how schools promote apprenticeships.

Education

Remaking Tertiary Education

14-Nov-16

Education Policy Institute

This examines the future of England�s Tertiary Education system. It concludes that English technical education is �in tatters� and that the current system for funding university level qualifications is unsustainable and highly inefficient. Professor Alison Wolf proposes radical and significant reform to funding for post-secondary education qualifications, designed to support better choices for all young people, encourage innovation, and create courses which are better suited to labour market needs and more economically rational for the country.

Education