This article assesses the period following the 1988 Education Reform Act (ERA) and reflects
on the main continuities and discontinuities in policy emphases since that Act. It begins by …

This paper presents an overview of the situation of youth in OECD countries since the onset
of the financial crisis focusing primarily on describing the characteristics and living …

With the world becoming increasingly digitalized, determining the relationship between the
use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and educational outcomes takes …

Existing research shows that house prices respond to local school quality as measured by
average test scores. However, higher test scores could signal higher academic value-added …

This report examines the factors underlying low achievement in British education. It is
important to find out why tens of thousands of young people leave school with no or very few …

When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten
years on its success in making Britain'a more equal society'. As it approaches the end of an …

In this paper we offer an appraisal of the economics of education research area, charting its
history as a field and discussing the ways in which economists have contributed both to …

Child poverty is a global issue that affects around half the children in the world; it is
inextricably bound to the poverty experienced by their parents and families and has been …

London is an educational success story, with especially good schooling results for more
disadvantaged pupils. This is a dramatic reversal of fortunes. This paper uses a combination …

Successive governments have sought to narrow the achievement gap between pupils from
advantaged and disadvantaged backgrounds, as part of wider efforts to improve social …