Education
Spending on schools in England
Real-terms per pupil funding for schools stayed at roughly the same level from 2010/11 to 2015/16, and fell after that. Since 2017/18 it has flattened out. Read
Analysis
Amy Sippitt
Head of Research (former)
Amy led our Policy and Research Team, and managed Full Fact’s research projects and academic partnerships. She previously led our fact checking team. She was responsible for gathering practical evidence to measure and enhance our impact and performance. Amy joined Full Fact in February 2014 from Buttle UK, a charity that provides grants to vulnerable young people. She graduated with a Masters in Social Research while working at Full Fact.
Europe
What do businesses think about the EU referendum?
As far as we’re aware, there aren’t any surveys that offer a representative picture of UK business opinion on the UK’s membership of the EU. Read
Analysis
Economy, Business & Finance
19 November's BBC Question Time, factchecked
We've factchecked a few of the claims on this week's BBC Question Time: on intervention in Syria, homeless veterans and police budget cuts. Read
Analysis
Europe
Looking for impartial information about the EU? Look no further
The public and businesses say they don't have enough information about the EU. Full Fact will provide impartial information in the run up to the referendum. Read
Analysis
Education
Have the government's tuition fee reforms worked?
We look at how the Higher Education reforms have worked out for students, graduates, universities and the public. Read
Analysis
Economy, Business & Finance
Has the Prime Minister broken a promise on tax credits?
The Prime Minister has been accused of breaking a pledge on child tax credits. So what exactly was promised? Read
Analysis
When talking about benefit cuts it's unhelpful to refer to the "£220 billion" welfare budget
The £220 billion welfare budget includes pension costs, which aren't going to be cut. Read
Analysis
Guardian app hasn't started notifying users of corrections to pieces
Last week we wrote about a notification sent to mobile users of a correction from the Guardian news app, which we thought was a correction to an article. Read
Analysis
Is the Guardian the first news app to send push notifications to readers about corrections?
This week the Guardian app popped up with a notification alerting phone users to a correction to one of its pieces. It's a very good way of making sure readers … Read
Analysis
Education
Counting the cost of poor literacy and numeracy skills
About 8 million working age adults have 'below-functional' numeracy skills and about 5 million have 'below-functional' literacy skills in England. Read
Analysis
