The tuition fee debate often feels like it has dominated to the exclusion of almost everything else when it comes to adult education in England. Every government knows the power of tuition fees as a...
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IPPR North commends the IPA for responding to our frequent calls to improve the available data on regional infrastructure and accepting the argument that it is important to disaggregate public...
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This year the NHS turns 70 years old. For seven decades it has been there for us at times of most basic human need, offering care and compassion. The NHS has been a vital friend to millions: it...
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What is democracy? What does a healthy democracy look and feel like? And what is the role of education in making it possible? Jeremy Gilbert, professor of cultural and political theory at the...
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Young people
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The UK needs a pay rise. Real median (average) household incomes are today only five per cent higher than they were in 2007 and the country is in the worst period of pay growth in 150 years, exposing...
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Public services
Budget
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The NHS is well into its more austere decade ever, whilst funding for social care has declined every year since 2010. The system has attempted to respond to this crunch in resources by increasing...
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Adult social care has been cut substantially since the onset of austerity. This is increasingly having severe consequences on the frontline including rising unmet need and pressures on quality and...
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Older people
IPPR
Workers in the NHS have experienced a seven-year pay squeeze, with a two year pay freeze from 2011/12, followed by pay capped at 1 per cent for the following five years. This has significantly eroded...
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IPPR
Last week, the transport secretary arrived for another tour of Northern cities to "slay some myths" that he believed had emerged following his challenging summer visit. In his last outing he...
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IPPR North
In just a few weeks’ time, the Prime Minister looks set to use her speech to Conservative party conference to recommit to delivering on her pledge to make peoples’ energy cost less.
What’s more,...
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