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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Practice Makes Perfect: The Importance of Practical Learning
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.
| Published: | 27 March 2007 |
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| Author: | Social Market Foundation |
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Delivering Full Employment: From the New Deal to personal employment accounts
This paper recommends that workless people be given a virtual budget - a personal employment account - instead of being enrolled in the current New Deal.
| Published: | 22 February 2007 |
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| Author: | Steven Evans |
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Fade or Flourish: How primary schools can build on children’s early progress
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.
| Published: | 04 July 2006 |
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| Author: | Claudia Wood |
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Making Choice a Reality in Secondary Education
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.
| Published: | 09 November 2005 |
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| Author: | Claudia Wood |
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Private Sector Provision of Employment Services for Young Adults at Risk
This report analyses the effectiveness of work experience, training and employment schemes provided by the private sector for a particularly vulnerable group of low skilled youth: young offenders and young people at risk of offending.
| Published: | 21 July 2005 |
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| Author(s): | Vidhya Alakeson, Matthew Dodd |
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The Incapacity Trap: Report of the SMF Commission on Incapacity Benefit Reform
This report argues that reform should focus on providing the right conditions for these people to re-enter employment, rather than prolonging their stay on a benefit which helps neither them nor society.
| Published: | 30 June 2005 |
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| Author: | Moussa Haddad |
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Too much too late: Life Chances and Spending on Education and Training
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.
| Published: | 16 March 2005 |
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| Author: | Vidhya Alakeson |
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Giving something back: Business, volunteering and healthy communities
In this publications, all parties consider the role that government and business can play in pushing forward employee volunteering.
| Published: | 06 September 2004 |
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| Author(s): | Philip Collins, Moussa Haddad |
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School Admissions
This report, produced by an internal SMF Commission, proposes ballots as a means of allocating places in oversubscribed schools.
| Published: | 19 July 2004 |
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| Author: | Moussa Haddad |