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You are here Our people Jonathan Clifton
 
Jonathan Clifton

Jonathan Clifton

Research Fellow

Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6166
Email: j.clifton@ippr.org
 

Areas of expertise:

  • Education and young people
  • Public service reform
  • Youth labour market

Jonathan comments regularly on public policy issues in the media. Recent coverage includes the Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, BBC London and GMTV. He has given presentations at a number of events, including an ESRC conference at the Treasury. His research has been published in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.

Before joining IPPR in January 2009, Jonathan completed an MA as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He holds a BA in Geography from Durham University.

 

Publications

Older Londoners: Final report

12 Oct 2011

Social isolation among older Londoners

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

11 Oct 2011

Benchmarking the English school system against the best in the world

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

15 Jul 2011

Room for Improvement: ippr's response to the schools white paper

Author(s) : Rick Muir, Jonathan Clifton

03 Dec 2010

Youth Tracker, Issue 4

Author(s) : IPPR

18 Aug 2010

Youth Tracker Issue 3

Author(s) : IPPR

26 Apr 2010

Colleges 2020

16 Mar 2010

Colleges 2020

16 Mar 2010

Getting On: Well-being in later life

Author(s) : Alice Sachrajda, James McCormick, Jonathan Clifton, Eleanor McDowell, Myriam Cherti

01 Dec 2009

Ageing and Well-Being in an International Context

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

16 Oct 2009

Building a Better Balanced UK economy: Where will jobs be created in the next economic cycle?

Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, Jonathan Clifton, Rachel Reeves

15 Jul 2009

 

Articles

World class universities - 26 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton, Annika Olsen

Profit-making schools are not the answer - 24 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Making the case for universal childcare - 22 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Autonomy without accountability will not raise school standards - 05 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

'Youth Contract' will not deliver on its promises - 07 Dec 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

The Independent View: Coalition’s social mobility strategy failing - 28 Oct 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Need A New Approach To Elderly Care To Tackle Social Isolation - Especially In London - 26 Oct 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

International comparisons can be instructive if used properly - but, on this too, England is lagging behind - 15 Jul 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Superteachers on the way – but will failing schools benefit? - 27 Jun 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

With fees increasing, should we be encouraging all students go to university? - 06 Jun 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Coalition year one: Education - 11 May 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Schools must learn to spend the pupil premium wisely - 20 Apr 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

The big flaw in Gove's teaching reforms - 11 Apr 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Gove's justification for axing EMA doesn't add up - 30 Mar 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Gove's insistence on good degrees won't be enough to drive up teaching standards - 17 Feb 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

What’s left of the big society? - 14 Feb 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Cameron's reforms risk being undone by weak accountability structures - 17 Jan 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Gove's school league tables will fail the poorest pupils - 12 Jan 2011

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Society and the State: Does Size Matter? - 18 Mar 2010

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton, Guy Lodge

Public service reform in the 2010 election: society versus the state - 01 Mar 2010

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Power to the people - 25 Feb 2010

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

We've had the third way, now for the third age - 01 Sep 2009

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

Rebalancing our shaky economy - 15 Jul 2009

Author(s) : Jonathan Clifton

 

Projects

Commission on the Future of Higher Education

Creating a world-class school system for England

London Councils child poverty evaluation

Youth Tracker: reporting on challenges and solutions for young people in recession and recovery

Equity and Excellence: how to narrow the attainment gap in schools