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On 28 March 2022 the Department for Education (DfE) published the white paper ‘Opportunity for all: strong schools with great teachers for your child’ , setting out the government’s ambitions to ‘level up’ education across the country and making the…
By Education Policy Institute
EPI seeks school leaders’ views in new DEEP survey [You are viewing an old version of this page - please see here for the most recent information.] The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has launched a major national survey, the Decisions…
By Education Policy Institute
This new research paper by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), calls for multi-academy trusts and other school groups to be judged on a wider range of measures relating to pupil inclusion to allow for more informative comparisons. School groups –…
By Education Policy Institute
Parts 1 and 2 of this blog series on school efficiency introduced: Why we have embarked on an ambitious research programme to identify the most effective school groups , including those that are most financially efficient; and The strengths and…
By Education Policy Institute
As introduced in our previous post , we are proposing to create a measure of efficiency that will help us identify the most effective school groups. “Efficiency” can mean a lot of things. Here, we mean that an efficient school…
By Education Policy Institute
Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirmed last month that spending per pupil in schools will be restored to 2010 levels in real-terms by 2024-25. On the one hand, this was not unexpected, as we know that this has been the intention since…
By Education Policy Institute
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How should “efficiency” in school groups be measured? Which school groups in England are the most efficient? Why are some school groups more efficient than others? The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has launched a major research project to understand how…
By Education Policy Institute
EPI Senior Researcher Emily Hunt shares her own experience of negotiating England’s school admissions system in recent months, shining a light on how the system works against many families and is serving to exacerbate inequalities in education. Choosing schools is a tricky business at the best of times, knowing your decision…
By Emily Hunt
This new report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds that the four UK nations have begun to adopt increasingly different approaches to education policy after twenty years of devolution. The research, which is…
By Education Policy Institute
On Tuesday 21 st July, the Education Policy Institute (EPI) hosted a virtual roundtable bringing together education leaders from across the sector, focusing on the digital divide in education and the case for enabling a blended learning approach for all…
By Education Policy Institute
A new report from the Education Policy Institute, commissioned by the British Council, highlights the methods of schools that are trying to close the gender gap in language learning by tackling boys’ underperformance. The research considers the latest trends in…
By Education Policy Institute
While the school attended explains a relatively small proportion of the variation in pupil outcomes it still matters. The difference in outcomes between the highest and lowest performing schools on the government’s key measure of performance is equivalent to around…
By Emily Hunt, Jon Andrews, and Education Policy Institute
