…skills rather than degrees. Going to university used to be an elite preserve. Today, nearly half of under-30s start a degree. But there is an irony in this apparent new…
New housing solutions needed in London
…and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said today: “So many of our leading jobs are based in London yet the current housing situation is making it increasingly difficult for graduates…
How to get poor pupils into the best state schools? Smash the glass floor
…child gets the golden ticket. … In one paper Reeves identified a group of Americans raised in higher earning families who went on to become higher earning adults. Yet judged…
Weighing up the evidence
…are certainly confident foundations that are true to this ideal. But many don’t use evidence extensively or at all when making funding decisions. And, at the other end of the…
New talent in the new industries
…own surveys of the backgrounds of leading professionals and the work of Alan Milburn’s Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission have focussed the national gaze on the preponderance of privately…
Record numbers seek UK university places
…was keen to point out that the higher fees had not been a barrier to entry. “There were many who said that the reform of student finance would discourage young…