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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On course for success? Student retention at university
This report, kindly supported by UPP Foundation, analyses the factors that affect student drop-out rates from universities across England.
| Published: | 19 July 2017 |
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| Author(s): | Kathryn Petrie, Nigel Keohane |
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Commission on Inequality in Education
This report reviews the evidence on inequality in education across time and observes how little it has changed, and in some cases how the situation has actually worsened over time.
| Published: | 13 July 2017 |
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| Author(s): | Rt Hon Nick Clegg, Rebecca Allen, Suella Braverman MP, Sam Freedman, Stephen Kinnock MP |
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Rules of Engagement
This report envisages a future where no matter how the work is performed there is greater evenness in tax treatment and in associated rights
| Published: | 20 June 2017 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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Social Market Foundation: Immigration briefing
For many politicians, the British electorate’s hostility to immigration at its current level and in its current form is taken as a given, a simple unchangeable fact. The assumption that...
| Published: | 05 June 2017 |
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| Author: | James Kirkup |
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Rising to the Challenge: the Further Education and skills sector over the next decade
The report argues that maximising FE and skills’ ability to boost the technical skills of British workers, young and old, should be an urgent priority for politicians
| Published: | 26 April 2017 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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Show and tell: Sharing the benefits of skilled immigration
In this paper the SMF calls for the government’s new Immigration Skills Charge to be used to fund an expanded Controlling Migration Fund.
| Published: | 06 April 2017 |
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| Author: | James Kirkup |
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Working it out: responses and recommendations to the rise in self-employment
The pamphlet looks at the rising trend in self-employment from a variety of perspectives, including tax, regulation and red tape, pensions and mortgages, trade unions and the self-employed, enterprise education,...
| Published: | 21 February 2017 |
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| Author: | Rachel Reeves MP |
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The Employment Divide: Is it possible to simplify the distinction between self-employment and employment?
This paper looks at way to close the divide between employment and self-employment.
| Published: | 17 November 2016 |
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| Author: | Emran Mian |
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Family Matters: The role of parents in children’s educational attainment
This is the fourth research paper produced by the SMF’s cross-party Commission on Inequality in Education.
| Published: | 10 November 2016 |
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| Author: | Emran Mian |