David Kingman looks at a report that calls for more funding for further education, which its authors argue has been badly neglected under the recent emphasis on universities
Category: Education
Friends Provident Foundation announces a Journalist Fellowship to promote an understanding of new economics
Danielle Walker Palmour, Director of Friends Provident Foundation, explains how the Journalist Fellowship 2016 came about and why it is important for journalists to have a better understanding of the economic debates underpinned by the Foundation’s work in building long-term, resilient and ethical economies
Which graduates will pay off their student loan?
Antony Mason looks at the burden of debt under which universities now send their graduates into the world of work
Graduate unemployment levels down – why is that not good news?
Miriam Broeks, who is working at IF under the Oxford Internship scheme, questions the spin put on the latest figures.
New report: too many graduates are doing non-graduate jobs
David Kingman looks at the findings of a new report which argues that too many UK workers are doing jobs for which they are overqualified
New report – higher debts may deter poorer students from attending university
David Kingman looks at one of the first attempts to analyse the possible impacts of the Conservatives’ latest reforms to higher education funding
Could intergenerational problems make social justice harder to achieve?
David Kingman looks at the findings from the latest report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission from an intergenerational angle
July Budget 2015: changes to student loans will hit middle-income graduates, says IFS
David Kingman looks at the changes to the system of student loans that were announced in the July 2015 Budget, and how – as the Institute for Fiscal Studies argues – these will have a negative impact on middle-income graduates
5.5% Interest: My Student Loan Story
Recent graduate Jessica Jones draws attention to the costly and insecure terms of student debt, what it might mean to have this hanging over you for the rest of your working life, and how few students even know what they’ve entered into
Latest data show slight fall in NEETs
David Kingman looks at the latest data on the number of young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training in the UK, which suggest some reasons for optimism