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In May we published a short analysis of what the next steps in implementing the white paper ‘Educational Excellence Everywhere’ might mean in reality. [1] The Government had recently rowed back from forcing all schools (including outstanding schools) to be…
By Jon Andrews
The Education Policy Institute's Chief Economist Peter Sellen appeared before the House of Commons Education Select Committee this morning, as part of an inquiry into teacher supply. The session, which was the inquiry's third since it was launched in 2015, heard…
By Education Policy Institute
Thousands of parents across the country will be immersed in the process of applying for secondary schools for their children, who are due to start Year 7 next year. Many of those parents will have already trudged through open-evenings, head…
By Jon Andrews and Jo Hutchinson
The Education Policy Institute’s latest report, Teacher workload and professional development in England’s secondary schools , was today cited in the House of Commons, prompting responses from education minister Nick Gibb. In his first education questions as Shadow Schools Minister,…
By Education Policy Institute
This report examines teachers’ working hours, pay, and experience in secondary schools using the OECD’s latest Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). This provides a new and detailed comparison of the opinions, practices, and professional development of teachers in England…
By Education Policy Institute
In 2016 the Government launched a 12-week public consultation, Schools that Work for Everyone , setting out its intention to allow selective schools to expand, for new ones to be set up and for non-selective schools to become selective. The…
By Jo Hutchinson and Jon Andrews
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The Education Policy Institute hosted the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) exclusive briefing of its annual report on the state of education around the world. ‘ Education at a Glance ’ compares education trends and performance across 35 OECD…
By Education Policy Institute
When it comes to opportunity, we won’t entrench the advantages of the fortunate few, we will do everything we can to help anybody, whatever your background, to go as far as your talents will take you. Theresa May, 13 th…
By Jo Hutchinson
Education Policy Institute and the LSE publish analysis of the performance of post-2010 sponsored academies The analysis, completed in partnership with the LSE, looks at the performance of 205 academies approved to be sponsored after May 2010 and which converted…
By Jon Andrews and Education Policy Institute
The Department for Education (DfE) has followed up their release of headline results in July with a provisional analysis of 2016’s key stage 2 assessments, with more information on the distribution of scaled scores, geographic variation and gender gaps. The…
By Education Policy Institute
Today saw 670,000 16 year olds across the UK receive their GCSE results. In the final year before some of the new GCSEs and grading structures have an impact on exam results, we take a closer look at what today’s…
By Jo Hutchinson
Today, young people across the country received their A-Level results. We have done some initial analysis of what those results tell us about the trends in entry rates, grades, offers to Higher Education Institutions and the demographics of students. Policy…
By Jon Andrews
