Brazil’s Bolsa Família (Family Allowance) social welfare programme has clear intergenerational aspects, as João Cláudio Rocha Baeta Leal explains. A 24-year-old Brazilian public administrator currently doing an MSc on the Political Economy of Late Development at the London School of Economics, João Leal has carried out research in local development, poverty, democratic participation, government cooperation… Read more »
Category: Education
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week takes place from Monday 13 May to Sunday 19 May, with the principal theme of body image. David Kingman explains what Mental Health Awareness Week is about and how you can get involved
Is going to university worth the cost? Not always, suggests new research
New research based on the Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) dataset sheds more light on the complex question of whether obtaining a university degree is worth the financial cost of doing so. David Kingman reports
The “cock-up theory” of student debt
Angus Hanton, co-founder of IF, deplores the casual misguidedness of policy-makers that is responsible for the plight of debt-burdened graduates
Is Britain’s education system fit for purpose?
David Kingman looks at the findings of new research into problems affecting different parts of Britain’s education system
Apprenticeship levy could do more harm than good, warns IFS
David Kingman looks at the criticisms of the government’s new apprenticeship levy made recently by the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Is Britain’s education system failing the next generation?
David Kingman reports on how the UK fared in the latest round of the OECD’s PISA tests, which compare how school children perform in reading, maths and science
Review: Your money and your life, Episode 1, BBC Radio 4
David Kingman reviews the first episode in a new BBC radio series, which looked at the financial pressures facing families in their 20s in modern Britain
IF research: student debt outweighs graduate premium
David Kingman looks at the widespread media coverage received by IF’s recent paper on the cost of higher education
New research shows fewer UK students feel their courses are value for money
David Kingman reports on the latest findings from the Student Academic Experience Survey conducted by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI)
