David Kingman looks at the evidence surrounding whether doing a degree is worthwhile for a young person
Book Review: “The Great University Con”
“The Great University Con: How We Broke Our Universities and Betrayed a Generation”, by David Craig and Hugh Openshaw, makes a powerful case against what has been done to our universities in recent years. Review by Holly Metcalf, IF researcher
Turning 18 in 2018: the Zenennial Generation
Turning 18 in 2018, and turning 18 in the year 2000 – new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show there are some significant differences. IF researcher Holly Metcalf explains
Rent controls: lessons from Ireland?
The Irish government introduced rent controls in 2017 and look set to extend those controls with the aim of helping students. Sam Couldrick, IF researcher, assesses the impact the controls have had
New data highlight gulf in pension saving between DB and DC schemes for tomorrow’s pensioners
David Kingman looks at some new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on pension saving which show how little most of today’s workers are managing to save towards their retirements
The rise of the “very old adult” and the crisis in social care
IF researcher Holly Metcalf looks at the troubling statistics predicting the growing need for old-age care, and the inadequacy of provision to cope with it
Austerity for whom?
Sam Couldrick, IF researcher, looks at cuts to school funding and considers the UK’s austerity programme in light of one of its original justifications
The share of young people who are NEET continues to fall – but is that necessarily good news?
David Kingman ponders some important questions about whether the UK’s “jobs miracle” is necessarily all that it’s cracked up to be, especially in light of the supposedly lower number of young adults who are NEETs
The cost of a child is rising – and both parents and children are struggling as a result
Family life in the UK is becoming more expensive, writes IF researcher Holly Metcalf, with more children growing up in poverty, and their parents increasingly making sacrifices to try and protect their children’s wellbeing. With government support in many areas being cut, families have had to resort to different coping mechanisms, which pose problems in… Read more »
Is Greece still the worst EU country to be a young person?
As the Greek economy reaches the crucial moment marking the end of its third (and hopefully final) bailout programme, David Kingman looks at whether the position of its young people has improved
