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
Tag: education
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
Intergenerational fairness: a North-South divide?
David Kingman looks at some new research to explore how intergenerational fairness plays out in different ways across the different regions of the UK
Schools are struggling to attract enough well-qualified teachers, government report warns
Good-quality teachers are vital to ensuring the success of the next generation – yet a new government report has warned that there are serious problems in equipping and retaining enough good teachers to keep up with the rising number of school pupils. David Kingman investigates
A summer of higher education discontent
The shock Labour party manifesto promise to remove tuition fees, as part of a pledge to young people in the recent General Election, has led to increasing scrutiny of the higher education finance system over the summer. Liz Emerson, IF Co-founder, investigates
Radical report calls for “comprehensive” universities
Academic selection in higher education comes under fire in a recent paper. David Kingman considers the arguments
Number of university applicants falls 4% year-on-year
David Kingman reports on a sudden drop in the number of people applying to study at university
IFS: freezing the student loan repayment threshold has made tuition fees much more regressive
David Kingman looks at the findings of a recent report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies on the student loan system in England
BSA: UK has Europe’s largest generational divide over immigration
In the second of two blogs about intergenerational stories arising from newly-released British Social Attitudes Survey data, David Kingman explores attitudes towards immigration
How could the student vote affect the general election?
Ahead of the UK’s snap general election on 8 June, David Kingman looks at whether students could have a decisive impact on particular seats