Latest Publications

In this publication, the Social Market Foundation outlines a new funding model which takes the best of two existing proposals – tuition fees and a graduate tax – to build a system that creates a fair market for students and universities alike.

SMF Briefing Note on Higher Tuition Fees

In this compelling collection of essays, leading education thinkers including Michael Barber, Alan Smithers, Mike Tomlinson and Alison Wolf consider these changes and debate their impact.

This collection of essays bring together some of the foremost thinkers in this field to look at the evidence and the challenges facing policymakers. Writing on topics such as which skills matter, why do governments treat further education students like children, and does the education system teach the right skills, the contributors address the issues central to raising skills for young people and adults to world standards.

This paper is a broad ranging review of the evidence and best practice, with the use of case studies, relating to a variety of pedagogical and administrative elements of primary school practice.

This publications presents an examination of how choice might work in secondary education. Importantly, the case it presents considers what might be achieved in terms of increased quality, but also considers what the impact might be in terms of equity.

Based on strong evidence of the contribution of early education to improvements in school attainment, the report proposes a reallocation of spending in the medium term in favour of children under five.

This report, produced by an internal SMF Commission, proposes ballots as a means of allocating places in oversubscribed schools.