The Sutton Trust’s Conor Ryan considers the fallout from the resignations at the Social Mobility Commission and suggests where the policy agenda could go next.
Facts and figures from the December 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine highlighting findings from the second CIPFA-Institute for Government Performance Tracker report
While Philip Hammond's funding commitments to education in the Budget were positive it will take more than cash to get education right, says Reform's Emilie Sundorph.
The government will provide £40m to train maths teachers across the country to give pupils the knowledge needed for the digital economy, chancellor Philip Hammond said in his Budget statement.
Donor countries should spend significantly more on global education to close the $1.8trn funding gap and help countries progress out of poverty, British MPs have said.
The government should introduce measures to redistribute revenue in favour of the young who “have been left behind for too long”, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has said today.
Facts and figures from the November 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine on changing attitudes to tax and spending, public support for the NHS and rising inflation
Student finance has at last become an electoral issue. This could provide the impetus for an overhaul so everyone can afford to go to university, says the Sutton Trust's Javneet Ghuman.
The Department for Education needs to reduce payments to students who do not finish their studies at non-publicly funded higher education providers, the spending watchdog has found.
Universities and colleges should make fundamental changes to diversify their student bodies and ensure increased access to higher education, the Office for Fair Access has said.
The government is “trapped in a reactive spending cycle on public services”, an analysis released by the Institute for Government and CIPFA today has warned.
Tuition fees should be cut and interest rates lowered but the repayment threshold should remain at current levels, according to the Centre for Policy Studies.
UK universities’ “knock-on impact” of nearly £100bn to the UK economy and almost a million jobs should not be “taken for granted”, a membership organisation said...
The government has released a first-of-its-kind audit, revealing the disparities between ethnic groups and their health, education, employment and justice outcomes.
Prime minister Theresa May’s reforms to the student finance system will save graduates significant amounts of money but increase costs to the taxpayer by around 40%, Institute for Fiscal...
The Conservatives kicked off their conference yesterday with a policy pitch designed to appeal to younger voters, specifically students, first-time buyers and private renters.
Facts and figures from the October 2017 edition of Public Finance magazine, our international special, on global literacy rates, the cost of a college education and which countries have the best...
