Expert teaching is known to be best way to close the gaps between disadvantaged children and their wealthier peers. This report puts forward the case for a new institution – an Institute for Advanced...
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The North has the potential to build on its burgeoning economic strengths, generating prosperity that will benefit the whole of the country. Addressing educational disadvantage must be at the heart...
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IPPR North
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Nowhere is the crisis in children and young people’s mental health felt more acutely than in our secondary schools, which increasingly find themselves on the frontline. This report examines why...
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While politicians often get hooked on reforming school structures, international evidence shows that lasting change comes from the slow, patient and less glamorous work of building professional...
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As the number of academies continues to expand, this report asks whether the present system of contractual funding agreements with individual academies and academy chains is the best means of...
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Mainstream schools can benefit in a number of ways from the work of the UK's many community-led educational programmes. This report makes recommendations for how more pupils, schools and communities...
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Young people
The Sixth-Form Colleges’ Association has captured press attention this morning ahead of the A-level results with dire warnings that many of its members are in danger of going to the wall, and that...
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Young people
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Upper-secondary schooling system in England today is confusing and fragmented. This paper sets out a vision for 14–19 education that is more coherent and more effective at guiding young people...
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Young people
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Higher education policy has been unusually controversial and contested in the last two decades. The old model of setting up a royal commission and then implementing its recommendations over a...
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Higher education
This report demonstrates that a subsidised student loans system could be established for postgraduate study at relatively low risk to the public purse, thus extending more widely the potential...
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Young people
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