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Following a consultation that received an unprecedented 15,000 responses, Ofsted’s new inspection framework for education has been released today. As must often be the case with schools, it is incredibly difficult to reconcile the positives and the negatives into a…
By Jo Hutchinson
At the Education Policy Institute, our research programme is strongly centered on improving young people’s outcomes. Over the last few years we have published several reports on children’s mental health, which have mainly focused on issues around access to and…
By Whitney Crenna-Jennings
In February 2018, the Prime Minister launched a review into the post-18 education system, led by Philip Augar. The review is the first to examine post-18 education funding in almost a decade, and as well as considering tuition fees, will…
By David Robinson
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published the most comprehensive analysis to date of unexplained pupil exits from English schools , using over a decade’s worth of Department for Education data. The research improves on estimates of the potential size of so-called…
By Jo Hutchinson and Whitney Crenna-Jennings
New research from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) examines the school appeals and waiting lists system in England. Drawing on newly available parental preferences data, the study examines how parents use these routes to secure a school place for their…
By Emily Hunt
EPI Executive Director Natalie Perera examines the latest challenges in high needs funding, which covers pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and those in Alternative Provision settings. School funding continues to be a major issue in the education…
By Education Policy Institute
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The Department for Education (DfE) published its recruitment and retention strategy last Monday to widespread acclaim. It boasts a supportive foreword from eight leading sector bodies including teacher unions, Ofsted and the Education Endowment Foundation and the central plank -…
By James Zuccollo
Last week saw the publication of the secondary school performance tables 2018. The tables provide key performance data for KS4 assessments for all secondary schools in England for the last academic year. Here we outline some of the key findings.…
By Education Policy Institute
New analysis by the Education Policy Institute compares the performance of pupils in England and Wales. While international comparisons are common in education debates, there is less focus on comparing countries within the UK. This new paper considers how England…
By Education Policy Institute
New research from Education Policy Institute (EPI), supported by the Nuffield Foundation, provides a detailed analysis of the childcare workforce in England. The report compares conditions and characteristics of childcare workers with those in ‘competing’ jobs such as hairdressers and…
By Dr Sara Bonetti
School funding remains a major issue in 2019. This report from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) employs the latest data to build a detailed picture of the current state of school finances. To understand how schools are faring financially, the…
By Jon Andrews
Today sees the publication of the primary school performance tables providing school by school results of the Key Stage 2 assessments in 2018 and statistics on attainment by different pupil characteristics. In this note we take a look at some…
By Jon Andrews
