Head of Research (former)
Education
It states of inspection figures to which free schools were compared: "The findings cannot be interpreted as a balanced view of the quality of education nationally". Read
MySociety, the people behind TheyWorkForYou and FixMyStreet, has published analysis which sought to find out which House of Commons votes would have gone differently had Scottish MP's votes not been … Read
Education
The statistics body responds to claims by the Department for Education that free schools are twice as likely to be 'outstanding' under the new Ofsted framework. Read
The Telegraph and the Daily Mail reported new findings from the OECD today that the majority (3 in 4) of graduates lack high-level literacy skills, or in the Mail's case: … Read
Frances O'Grady compared Britain to a "Downton Abbey-style society" where "social mobility has hit reverse" in her TUC Congress address. The result of this, she said, was that: "Whether it's … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Spotlight on social mobility. How can we define it, how it has changed over time and how mobility in the UK compares to other countries. Read
The Daily Mail reported yesterday that up to 2,000 illegal immigrants, mainly Africans and Asians, had arrived in Calais - migrants who it said "will be able to claim benefits … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Yesterday there seemed to be confusion in the media about the source of an estimate that 'troubled families' are costing the taxpayer £30 billion a year. Today we provide more detail on the figure. Read
When the government first announced its Troubled Families programme, launched to help an estimated 120,000 families, it said these families were costing about £9 billion a year. In June last … Read
One of the reasons often given by the Yes Campaign in favour of independence is that the current system means Scotland has had "Tory-led governments we didn't vote for". The … Read
