Latest Publications
Work, Skills & Education
We research all aspects of education and work, but we focus particularly on aspects that political debate often neglects: further education; vocational and technical education; apprenticeships and lifelong learning; in-work poverty.
Latest Publications:
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Self-Employment and Ethnicity: An escape from poverty?
Why are some ethnic groups more likely to be self-employed? Is it a route to social mobility or a reflection of being locked out of other jobs? This paper looks at how self-employment compares, and has changed, across ethnic groups in the UK.
| Published: | 12 August 2015 |
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| Author: | Nida Broughton |
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Fixing a Broken Training System: The case for an apprenticeship levy
In this paper Professor Alison Wolf examines the Government's commitment to create 3 million new apprenticeships which will deliver the skills needed to boost productivity.
| Published: | 02 July 2015 |
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| Author: | Professor Baroness Alison Wolf CBE |
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Targeting Immigration: What does a good migration target look like?
This new briefing sets out the case for scrapping the Coalition’s immigration cap in favour of the SMF's preferred new target - an aims to increase public confidence in the immigration system by 2020.
| Published: | 26 February 2015 |
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| Author: | Ben Richards |
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Employment, Skills and growth
This was prepared for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth event The Good Economy, taking place on Wednesday 4 February 2015.
| Published: | 02 February 2015 |
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| Author: | Emran Mian |
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Venturing Forth: Increasing high value entrepreneurship
What more can be done by policymakers to encourage more of the type of entrepreneurial activity that has the widest positive effect on the UK economy – what we term “high value entrepreneurship”.
| Published: | 15 July 2014 |
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| Author(s): | Nida Broughton, Kitty Ussher |
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Open Access: An independent evaluation
Children who attend private school will earn £193,700 more on average in their early careers than their state educated peers, according to our new independent report which analyses the Sutton Trust's Open Access programme.
| Published: | 03 July 2014 |
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| Author(s): | Nigel Keohane, Nida Broughton, Onyinye Ezeyi, Claudia Hupkau, Ryan Shorthouse |
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Making Progress: Boosting the skills and wage prospects of the low paid
Making Progress proposes a skills based in-work progression policy to help individuals stuck on low pay enhance their productivity and escape the low pay trap.
| Published: | 28 April 2014 |
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| Author(s): | Nigel Keohane, Claudia Hupkau |
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Schools United: Ending the divide between independent and state
In this report Anthony Seldon outlines proposals aimed at ending the divide between state and independent schools, widening access to private education, bringing new money into the state system and reducing the domination of places at the top state schools by children from well off parents. His proposals are bold and above all they need political leadership and vision to bring them about.
| Published: | 19 January 2014 |
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| Author(s): | Sir Anthony Seldon, Claudia Hupkau |
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Robbins Revisited: Bigger and Better Higher Education
In this pamphlet, the Minister for Universities and Science, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, explores how the Robbins Report influences Government policy today and sets out his vision for the Higher Education system.
| Published: | 21 October 2013 |
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| Author: | David Willetts |