Toby Whelton, IF Senior Researcher, examines the newly announced National Youth Strategy and analyses the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Category: Education
Should the UK ban social media for children?
Earlier this month, Australia implemented a world-first ban on social media accounts for children under 16. In this article, IF Senior Researcher Conor Nakkan takes a closer look at the policy and considers whether the UK should follow Australia’s lead.
Graduate outcome statistics will never show where HE opportunity ends and fleecing begins
In this article, student finance campaigner, Paul Wiltshire, argues that better graduate outcome data will not be enough to fix the fundamental flaws of mass Higher Education.
Wellbeing on a budget? The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill’s insufficient support for children in poverty
Will the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill improve the wellbeing of children growing up in poverty? Asks Katie Porteous, IF student intern.
The Children’s Wellbeing Bill: Is this a new era for educational equality and opportunity?
A Commitment to educational equality? Meera Saravanan, IF’s Royal Holloway student placement, investigates
The mounting crises for young people on the PM’s desk
As Liz Truss settles in to 10 Downing Street IF’s Digital Campaigns Officer, Liam Hill, considers what is top of the list of priorities for the new Prime Minister, and what ought to be higher on the list. Energy: the big one Last week, the government announced a plan to freeze energy bills for consumers… Read more »
Graduation ceremonies are stalked by the ghost of student debt
Having recently attended graduation ceremonies at three universities, IF Co-Founder Angus Hanton has been struck by a streak of very British reserve that ran through all of them and that is the willingness of higher education institutions to take large sums of money from students without a single mention of money, fees, pay or student… Read more »
A-Level Day for Generation COVID
Hundreds of thousands of students have received their A-Level grades having navigated another year of educational disruption thanks to COVID-19-related government policy. Liz Emerson, IF Co-founder, looks at the numbers and calls for more financial government support for higher education students. Two-thirds of students make grades Two-thirds of students will gain entry to their first… Read more »
Feeding off students, yet again
In a week full of news, the government slipped out the announcement that student loan interest rates will be capped. That might sound like good news for students, but as Liz Emerson, IF co-founder explains, the young will be paying back much more than ever before, and for longer. The cap The retail price index… Read more »
Hit From All Sides: why the world isn’t working for Gen Z
In this article, student campaigner Lauren Roberts-Turner writes about the difficulties facing Gen Z, people in their teens and early twenties, and what kinds of changes are required to make the world work for younger people. A challenge facing the young Being young is an inevitable, if fleeting and often challenging, stage of life that… Read more »