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January 3, 2023
Northern Powerhouse Partnership
This report presents research findings from the NPP and the FFT Education Datalab. It looks at the relationship between attainment and the amount of time pupils have been eligible for free school meals (FSM), and the likelihood of being in a sustained positive destination by age 22.
December 15, 2022
Education Policy Institute
This report from the EPI examines the disadvantage gap in England during 2021, at GCSEs and A Levels. The “disadvantage gap” – the gap in grades between disadvantaged students and their peers – is a leading measure of social mobility in England and an indicator of the government’s progress in reducing inequalities in education.
December 13, 2022
Ofsted
Ofsted's Annual Report presents findings for the areas Ofsted inspect in early years childcare, schools, further education and skills and social care.
December 12, 2022
Institute for Fiscal Studies
This is the fifth annual report from the IFS on education spending. The report seeks to provide a clear and consistent comparison of the level and changes in spending per student across different stages of education.
December 11, 2022
Public First
This research from Public First included ten focus groups of parents of social grade C1 to D in 10 areas in England (including Teesside), and a nationally representative poll of 1000 parents with an additional sample of parents from red wall constituencies.
December 2, 2022
Sutton Trust
Polling conducted by Teacher Tapp for the Sutton Trust examines the issues that teachers are seeing their pupils face linked to living costs this autumn term. The polling looks at how the crisis is directly affecting students, and how this is affecting their educational experience.
December 1, 2022
Department for Education
This DfE data release contains national and provider-level information about the numbers and characteristics of new entrants to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in England in the training year 2022/23; and 2022/23 Postgraduate ITT (PGITT)targets. This data set is released annually.
November 23, 2022
Covid Social Mobility and Opportunities Study
The fourth briefing of Wave 1 of the COSMO Study considers the mental health and wellbeing of young people in year 11. The first three briefings looked at lockdown learning, education recovery and catch-up, and future plans and aspirations.
October 13, 2022
Covid Social Mobility and Opportunities Study
COSMO examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational inequality, wellbeing and social mobility. The first 'wave’ of the study, which started in autumn 2021, recruited a sample of over 13,000 young people across England who were due to take their GCSEs in 2021. The study is led by UCL and the Sutton Trust.
September 20, 2022
National Foundation for Educational Research
This research by the NFER uses newly available teacher census data to make teacher attrition rate comparisons between England and Wales. The research compares teachers in schools in Wales with teachers in areas of England that have similar economic and contextual characteristics to Wales.
June 23, 2022
National Foundation for Educational Research
England has been facing a significant teacher supply challenge, marked particularly by under supply of maths, physics and chemistry teachers. This research by NFER, supported by the Gatsby Foundation, explores the impact of pay and financial incentives on shortage subject teacher supply.
June 17, 2022
The Centre for Education & Youth
This report explores how the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) can be improved. It is informed by a survey of 185 school and trust leaders and teachers, as well as 27 interviews with school and trust leaders, senior figures at the Department for Education (DfE) and others with research and policy expertise. This included contributions from Schools North East.
June 15, 2022
Children’s Commissioner
This report contains the findings of the Children’s Commissioner’s Attendance Audit. The audit set out with an overarching goal that every child should be in school every day, supported and ready to learn.
June 15, 2022
Times Education Commission
The Times Education Commission was set up in June 2021. Its aim was to examine Britain’s whole education system and consider its future in the light of the Covid-19 crisis, declining social mobility, new technology and the changing nature of work.
June 13, 2022
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
This government strategy follows the government-commissioned independent review of the food system, the “National Food Strategy” and builds on existing work across government and the actions already being taken forward by industry and other key actors.
June 10, 2022
Department for Education
DfE surveyed school business professionals between September 2021 and November 2021. The survey explores the characteristics of financial leads, the extent of their influence in decision making, and use of school resource management tools.
June 7, 2022
Education Policy Institute
This EPI study explored the underperformance of 580 schools in England that consistently received less than good Ofsted inspection grades between 2005 to 2018.
May 18, 2022
Education Endowment Foundation
This EEF study aims to understand the relationship between reception children’s experiences of the coronavirus pandemic and their academic achievement and socio-emotional development during their first year at school in September 2020 to July 2021.
May 11, 2022
Department for Education
The Schools Bill was introduced to Parliament in May 2022. The bill makes provisions for the regulation of Academies,education funding, and attendance of children in school. It is underpinned by the aims set out in the Schools White Paper.
April 4, 2022
Ofsted
These briefings from Ofsted look at education recovery and how schools, early years providers and further education and skills providers are responding to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. These briefings draw together evidence from a sample of routine inspections.
March 28, 2022
Education Policy Institute
The analysis from EPI researchers examines the extent of pandemic learning losses and recovery at both a national and regional level, in primary (years 4-6) and secondary schools (years 7-9), and among pupils from different socio-economic backgrounds.
March 23, 2022
Education Policy Institute
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published a new study on the state of D&T. It is the first study to comprehensively examine trends in the subject over the last ten years.
March 23, 2022
National Foundation for Educational Research
The aim of the National Foundation for Educational Research’s (NFER) annual series of Teacher Labour Market reports, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, is to monitor the progress the school system in England is making towards meeting the teacher supply challenge.
March 16, 2022
Education Endowment Foundation
This rapid evidence assessment from the EEF examined the existing research on interventions that aim to improve pupils’ school attendance and the characteristics of these interventions, based on a systematic search of existing literature. This report summarises the findings from 72 studies.
March 10, 2022
Education Select Committee
This report from the Education Select Committee follows on from its inquiry into the Government’s catch-up programme. It sets out a series of recommendations, with a government response expected by the 10th May 2022.
November 30, 2021
Institute for Fiscal Studies
This is the fourth annual report published bythe IFS on education spending in England. These reports illustrate how spendingper pupil across different stages of education has changed over time.
November 25, 2021
National Audit Office
The National Audit Office (NAO) last reported on financial sustainability of schools in 2016. This is the second of two reports the NAO has published this year, following up on aspects of their 2016 report.
November 3, 2021
The Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition
The CYPMHC Members’ Report 2021 is based on insights gathered from the Coalition’s member organisations, as well as from young people and parents, on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children and young people.
October 30, 2021
The Coalition for Youth Mental Health in Schools
The Coalition for Youth Mental Health in Schools is a coalition of schools calling for radical reform of how mental health is supported in educational settings. It was brought together during the second lockdown and was a direct response to the challenge of Coronavirus on the lives of all young people.
October 21, 2021
Education Policy Institute
This EPI analysis,commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), models the long-run impactof the pandemic on learning loss and on future earnings.
September 6, 2021
Institute for Fiscal Studies
In this report, the IFS examine how the learning experiences of English school children evolved over the course of the first 12 months of Covid-related disruption, from the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020 until the end of the second period of school closures in March 2021.
September 6, 2021
Institute for Public Policy Research
This IPPR report is a summary and proposed regional strategy drawn from a research programme undertaken during 2021. This research sought to explore the extent and nature of digital exclusion in the North East (not just in schools), to identify policy responses, and to outline a strategic framework for addressing digital exclusion in the North East.
September 2, 2021
Institute for Financial Studies
This briefing note provides an update on school spending trends over time, covering the most recent sets of data, forecasts and policy announcements. School spending covers pupils in state-funded schools aged 5–16, as well as pupils aged 16–19 in school sixth forms.
September 2, 2021
National Foundation for Educational Research
This report provides insights into schools’ support for the recovery of learning, wellbeing and opportunity, as well as challenges and support needs, once pupils returned to school full-time from March 2021. It is based on in-depth interviews with senior leaders in 50 mainstream primary and secondary schools across England, predominantly serving deprived populations.
August 19, 2021
Sutton Trust
With the poorest children already 11 months behind their peers when they start primary school, and evidence that the gap is beginning to widen, this Sutton Trust report looks at access to early years provision.
July 21, 2021
Education Policy Institute
This EPI report is based on the last in a series of surveys that were carried out over the past year to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the early years sector and on the staffing decisions that settings have had to make throughout the year.
July 20, 2021
Social Mobility Commission
Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the Social Mobility Commission has taken a deep look at the progress made in all four UK nations in tackling poverty, addressing inequality, and improving social mobility.
July 9, 2021
Education Policy Institute
This report from the EPI provides new insights into the educational outcomes of pupils in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since devolution. The study draws on the detailed Millennium Cohort Study of children born around 2000 and compares outcomes in reading, vocabulary, language and maths.
July 2, 2021
National Audit Office
The NAO’s value for money reports examine government expenditure in order to form a judgement on whether value for money has been achieved. They also make recommendations to public bodies on how to improve public services.
June 30, 2021
Social Mobility Commission
The ‘Against the odds’ study investigates the characteristics and strategies of schools that have bucked the trend. Having conducted fieldwork in 32 English secondary schools, it is the largest study of its kind.
June 28, 2021
Centre for Social Justice
This report from the Centre for Social Justice looks at the growing rates of absences from school during the pandemic, and how this trend can be reversed, including recommendations to utilise the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) to improve engagement.
June 22, 2021
House of Commons Education Committee
This report of the Education Select Committee follows on from their inquiry into left behind white pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. The inquiry began on 17th April 2020,receiving 65 pieces of written evidence, and held eight evidence sessions.
June 16, 2021
National Foundation for Educational Research
This NFER research examines the impact of the apprenticeships reforms on SMEs and on young people, against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. It also considers to what extent the apprenticeship programme needs to be refocused in order to ensure that − as we continue to emerge from the pandemic − the apprenticeship system is working to support young people and SMEs.
June 1, 2021
The Labour Party
Informed by their ‘Bright Future Taskforce’,Labour has published a Children’s Recovery Plan setting out proposals for all children to ‘play, learn and develop’ in the post-Covid period, aiming to close the education gap so every child’s future is determined by their potential.
May 26, 2021
Public Accounts Committee
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Commons examines the value for money of Government projects, programmes and service delivery. This report looks at the Department for Education’s response to the pandemic, and sets out recommendations for what the DfE can do to help children recover from the disruption of the past year.
May 20, 2021
Sutton Trust
In this report the Sutton Trust outlines its priorities for a ‘fairness first’ recovery plan, from the early years to sixth forms and college, based on three principles: the right scale and duration to match the challenge, a targeted approach, and including children and young people of all ages.
May 20, 2021
Education Policy Institute
This report from the Education Policy Institute, funded by the Gatsby Foundation, examines the current supply of teachers in England, and considers whether reforms to pay policy, particularly at a local level, may lead to improvements in recruitment and retention.
May 14, 2021
Education Policy Institute
This analysis by the EPI modelsthe impact of lost learning and sets out a series of fully costed,evidence-based proposals, showing the significant investment required todeliver on the Prime Minister’s promise to the nation that ‘no child is leftbehind’.
April 30, 2021
The Education Policy Institute
This report by the EPI, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, looks at the separate paths the four nations in the UK are taking in education. The research provides insights into the impact of devolution to date and each nation’s current priorities.
April 28, 2021
The Education Policy Institute
The Education Policy Institute were commissioned by Wellcome to evaluate the costs and benefits of entitling all teachers to 35 hours of high-quality, continuing professional development (CPD) every year.
April 26, 2021
Education Endowment Foundation
The School Starters study, funded by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), aims to explore the impact of the disruption caused by the pandemic on children’s transition and adjustment to Reception classes across England, looking at emotional wellbeing, language, and numeracy skills. This paper reports initial findings from a survey of parents and schools carried out in the Autumn Term 2020
April 20, 2021
Educational Policy Institute
Ahead of a detailed report on education recovery to be publishedin May, the EPI has released preliminary findings that reveal thescale of the funding response needed from the government todeliver on its education catch up commitments for pupils inEngland.
March 22, 2021
National Foundation for Educational Research
The NFER’s annual Teacher Labour Market report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, monitors the progress the school system in England is making towards meeting the teacher supply challenge by measuring the key indicators and trends of teacher supply and working conditions. This year’s report also looks at the impact of the pandemic on teachers’ well-being, workload, perceived job security and pay.
March 19, 2021
Education Policy Institute
This Education Policy Institute (EPI) study,funded by the Nuffield Foundation, quantifies how SEND support variesnationally, highlighting the significant inconsistencies in how children with SENDin England are identified and supported.
March 17, 2021
The National Audit Office
This report examines the Department for Education’s support for children’s education during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic between March and July 2020, and its action to help children catch up on the learning they lost during that period, focussing particularly on disadvantaged and vulnerable children.
January 27, 2021
The Northern Powerhouse Partnership
This analysis refreshes the research the NPP did in 2019, Next Steps for the Northern Powerhouse. The research in this analysis relates to pupils and exam results up to the end of the 2018/19 academic year. It is important to remember that this analysis relates to the situation prior to the Covid pandemic.
January 27, 2021
The Educational Policy Institute
This study looks at the mental health and wellbeing of young people in Generation Z, examining the personal experiences of young people in England, at age 11, 14 and 17. This is supplemented by focus group responses from November 2020
January 25, 2021
Ofsted
This report summarises the findings from several strands of research activity that Ofsted carried out in 2020. Remote education as a term covers any teaching where the teacher and pupil are not in the same room.
January 21, 2021
The Sutton Trust
This research brief looks at the situation for pupils during the latest round of school closures, with survey data from Teacher Tapp on teachers and YouGov on parents giving an up to date picture on how teaching is now being delivered remotely, access to resources, and barriers faced while learning at home, while also looking at how the impacts of the pandemic on education and social mobility can be minimised.
December 4, 2020
National Foundation for Educational Research
An NFER survey of schools’ responses to Covid-19 in May and July identified that a top priority for senior leaders was for the Government to provide more funding in order to manage the impact of Covid-19. This report investigates the impact of the pandemic on the funding landscape in mainstream primary and secondary schools in England.
December 2, 2020
The National Audit Office
This NAO investigation was prompted by reports in April 2020 of problems that schools and parents were experiencing when using the national free school meals voucher scheme, including difficulties and delays in accessing the Edenred website to order eCodes and convert them to vouchers.
November 20, 2020
Department for Education
This research from the DfElooks into the London effect using data from the Longitudinal Study of YoungPeople in England. The ‘London effect’ is the increased progress and attainmentof pupils in London compared to the rest of England, particularly fordisadvantaged pupils
November 9, 2020
Education Policy Institute
The EPI has published its recommendations on how the government should approach GCSE and A level exams in England in2021, including a back-up plan in the event that exams are cancelled again in the summer.
November 3, 2020
The Institute for Fiscal Studies
In the IFS’s annual report for 2020, they update estimates of spending per student and analyse the challenges facing each phase of education due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The report looks at all stages of education, from Early Years through to Higher Education.
October 9, 2020
Institute for Public Policy Research
With significant focus on recovery from the coronavirus, this report from the IPPR looks for opportunities to ‘build back better’. The report looks at longstanding weaknesses in the education system that pre-date the pandemic, beginning a debate about the ‘new normal’ in schools.
October 7, 2020
National Foundation for Educational Research
The Department for Education commissioned the NFER to carry out investigative research into school and trust governance. The research provides independent evidence to inform future policy developments and enable evidence-based prioritisation of resources to support school and trust governance throughout England.
September 25, 2020
CYPMHC
This is the first annual report published by the CYPMHC, shining a light on both the challenges and opportunities faced in protecting the mental health of infants, children, and young people in England in 2020.
September 18, 2020
Institute for Fiscal Studies
The IFS annual report 2020 looks at school spending, covering pupils in state-funded schools aged 5–16, as well as pupils aged 16–19 in school sixth forms. In 2019–20, total spending on schools in England represented about £51 billion (in 2020–21 prices), accounting for 17% of total public service spending in England
September 15, 2020
Social Mobility Commission
This report by the Social Mobility Commission makes use of new data on all state-educated pupils born between 1986 and 1988, following a group of sons from where they grew up to the labour market. The report looks at why there are differences across place, considering the role of education and the labour market.
August 26, 2020
Education Policy Institute
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published its Annual Report on the state of education in England, including the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.
July 17, 2020
Centre for Mental Health
This is the CMH’s second forecast of the mental health impacts of the pandemic, Covid-19 and the nation’s mental health. This second assessment reviews international evidence and explores the impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of children and young people, on the economy, and on those hit hardest by the pandemic.
June 18, 2020
Child Poverty Action Group
The Cost of the School Day project (in partnership with Children North East) helps schools identify and reduce the financial barriers that prevent children in poverty from fully participating in school life. This research used surveys and interviews with parents, carers, and young people to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
June 16, 2020
National Foundation for Educational Research
NFER have undertaken research to see how engaged pupils are during this prolonged period of remote learning, and the factors that might be driving this, as well as how schools are providing remote learning support for pupils. The report is based on findings from a national survey of 1,233 senior leaders and 1,821 teachers in mainstream primary and secondary schools.
June 2, 2020
Education Endowment Foundation
The EEF's rapid evidence assessment examines the potential impact of school closures on the attainment gap, based on a systematic search of existing literature.
May 28, 2020
Education Endowment Foundation
This report focuses on the impact of a school improvement programme, Achievement for All (AfA), on children’s educational outcomes (such as reading) and resilience-related outcomes (for example, goals and aspirations).
May 28, 2020
Education Endowment Foundation
This evaluation explored whether using the Early Years Toolbox (EYT) apps as part of a package of professional development can influence the knowledge and practice of early years staff, what information and level of support may be needed to act on the app-based assessments and whether this intervention is ready to be implemented at scale, and therefore its impact on child outcomes tested.
May 18, 2020
Institute for Financial Studies
In this report, the IFS present survey evidence on how children are spending their time during the lockdown, with a focus on home learning activities and the home learning resources available in different families. The survey was completed online by over 4,000 parents of children aged 4–15 between Wednesday 29 April and Tuesday 12 May 2020.
May 11, 2020
Centre for Social Justice
In this paper the CSJ have conducted an analysis to identify where in the country pupils educated in alternative provision (AP) have a poor-to-zero chance of receiving a quality education. They ranked inspection ratings, GCSE results, post-16 destinations, attendance and qualified teacher rates by local education authority (LA) area.
May 6, 2020
House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Committee of Public Accounts took evidence, including from the Department for Education, about support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
May 6, 2020
Educational Policy Institute
This EPI policy paper contains an assessment of the likely impact of Covid-19 on the outcomes of children and young people, particularly the most disadvantaged.
April 22, 2020
Education Endowment Foundation
The EEF have put together a rapid review andassessment of the evidence available on the effectiveness of remote learning,investigating methods schools can use to support remote learning.
March 3, 2020
This research looks into the effects of physical isolation (based on travel time from each school to the nearest major employment hub) and economic deprivation on school effectiveness, based on Ofsted ratings.
February 19, 2020
This report undertakes a review of the evidence on the impact of teacher professional development, examining 52 randomised controlled trials evaluating teacher development programmes.
February 17, 2020
This paper looks into the major barriers faced by disadvantaged pupils in accessing higher education, and outlines recommendations to address some of these issues.
January 29, 2020
The NFER research looks at teacher autonomy, meaning the capacity to make informed decisions and/or act independently. They used data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study and the NFER’s Teacher Voice survey.
January 21, 2020
The Ofsted Annual Report looks at schools, early years, further education and skills, and children’s social care for the academic year 2018 to 2019.
January 17, 2020
This report examines key early years policies implemented since 2006. The EPI focussed on two policies targeted at increasing qualification levels, and the expansion of childcare entitlements.
January 10, 2020
This EPI report looks at the proportion of referrals to CAMHS that are rejected, and the waiting times to assessment and treatment for accepted referrals.
January 8, 2020
This report explores why some schools that have had consistently poor Ofsted inspections are able to improve while others are not, by visiting a sample of schools and interviewing staff and governors/trustees.
December 10, 2019
This report provides a follow-up to the T Levels Research Study report, which was published by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) in June 2019. It is based on discussions that took place at NFER’s T Levels round table event, which was held in London on 8th October 2019.
November 11, 2019
This report explores the mental health and wellbeing of education professionals, and looks at trends over time. This is the third year of the survey, and had a sample size of 3019.
October 23, 2019
The report follows an 18-month inquiry (launched on 18th April 2018) into the 2014 Children and Families Bill, aimed at placing children and young people at the heart of the SEND system.
October 17, 2019
This report examines the strengths and weaknesses of the free schools programme, including whether it is successfully targeting areas in the country that are most in need of school places.
October 14, 2019
Foundation Stage Profile assessments were first collected in England in 2006/07. This means that those completing Key Stage 4 in 2017/18 were the first for which assessments can be linked at Foundation Stage and Key Stages 1, 2 and 4. The FFT Datalab analysis uses value added scores based on attainment in reading/English and mathematics.
October 11, 2019
The Teacher Workload Survey (TWS) 2019 is a large-scale survey of teachers, middle leaders, and senior leaders, conducted over a three-week period in March 2019, conducted by the Department for Education.
October 4, 2019
This is the latest report from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman about the Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan process. The report looks at common problems the Ombudsman finds when investigating parents’ complaints.
September 19, 2019
The IFS second annual report on education spending in England provides measures of spending per student in the early years, schools, further education and higher education back to the early 1990s. This comprehensive report provides analysis of a wide range of spending data at all levels.
September 19, 2019
State of the Nation 2019 describes careers provision in England’s secondary schools and colleges at the end of the academic year 2018/19. The report draws on data that has been collected through the Compass self-assessment tool. The Compass tool assesses schools’ and colleges’ careers programmes in relation to the eight Gatsby Benchmarks for Good Career Guidance.
September 17, 2019
Drawing on datasets from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), the Labour Force Survey, UK Time-Use Diaries, and Teacher Tapp, this report provides a comprehensive assessment in teachers’ working hours between 1992 and 2018.
September 16, 2019
The Annual Parent Survey carried out by Parentkind gauges parental views from a large sample size of 1,500 parents (1,200 in England, 200 in Wales and 100 in Northern Ireland). This report focuses on their key findings on school funding.